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Orbital Hall effect (OHE) is the phenomenon of transverse flow of orbital moment in presence of an applied electric field. Solids with broken inversion symmetry are expected to exhibit a strong OHE due to the presence of an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Sayantika Bhowal , S. Satpathy

Spin Hall effect, one of the cornerstones in spintronics refers to the emergence of an imbalance in the spin density transverse to a charge flow in a sample under voltage bias. This study points to a novel way for an ultrafast generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

Over the last two decades organic spintronics has developed into a striving field with exciting reports of long spin diffusion lengths and spin relaxation times in organic semiconductors (OSCs). Easily processed and inexpensive, OSCs are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Piotr Skalski , Olga Zadvorna , Deepak Venkateshvaran , Henning Sirringhaus

Controlling charge-spin current conversion by electric fields is crucial in spintronic devices, which can be realized in diatom ferroelectric semiconductor GeTe where it is established that ferroelectricity can change the spin texture. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-09 Wenxu Zhang , Zhao Teng , Huizhong Zeng , Jakub Zelezny , Hongbin Zhang , Wanli Zhang

We show that optically excited electrons by a circularly polarized light in a semiconductor with spin-orbit coupling subject to a weak electric field will carry a Hall current transverse to the electric field. This light induced Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xi Dai , Fu-Chun Zhang

The topological spin-Hall effect causes different spins to propagate in opposite directions based on Hermitian physics. The non-Hermitian skin effect causes the localization of a large number of modes of a system at its edges. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 S. Mandal , R. Banerjee , T. C. H. Liew

We show the existence of spin-Hall effect of light (SHEL) in an atomic medium which is made anisotropic via electromagnetically induced transparency. The medium is made birefringent by applying an additional linearly polarized coupling…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-03 Jinze Wu , Junxiang Zhang , Shiyao Zhu , Girish S. Agarwal

The optical modes of photonic structures are the so-called TE and TM modes which bring intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and chirality to these systems. This, combined with the unique flexibility of design of the photonic potential, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

Light possesses both spin and orbital angular momentum (AM). While spin AM is determined by helicity of circular-polarization, orbital AM is characterized by topological charge of vortex beam. Interaction of AM with optical beam orbit leads…

The effect of spin-orbit interaction on electron transport properties of a cross-junction structure is studied. It is shown that it results in spin polarization of left and right outgoing electron waves. Consequently, incoming electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. N. Bulgakov , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Sadreev , P. Středa , P. Šeba

Comparing with the spin of electron, the electronic orbitals, which have been long ignored in non-equilibrium transport, are getting more and more attentions, due to the prediction and experimental verification of orbital Hall effect (OHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Xin Li

The electric Hall effect (EHE) is a newly identified Hall effect characterized by a perpendicular electric field inducing a transverse charge current in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Here, we propose a spin and valley version of EHE. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 W. Zeng

A linearly polarized Gaussian beam, carrying zero net spin angular momentum, is conventionally not expected to exert optical torque or induce rotational motion in birefringent microparticles. When such a beam is tightly focused, the…

The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) structures has great potential for various polarization-sensitive applications and devices. Here, using optical weak measurement, we observe spin-dependent and…

The enhanced photonic spin hall effect (PSHE) plays a positive role in the flexible manipulation of photons. Here, by combining Dirac semimetals with Bragg reflector constructed by one-dimensional photonic crystal, we theoretically design a…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Keqiang Yin , Luzihao Li , Qijun Ma , Jie Jiang , Leyong Jiang

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

Controlling the spin degree of freedom of light at the microscale is crucial for advancing photonic information processing. Spin polarized light propagation, combined with strong optical nonlinearities, unlocks new functionalities in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Mateusz Kędziora , Andrzej Opala , Maciej Zaremba , Helgi Sigurðsson , Barbara Piętka

The spin polarization induced by the spin Hall effect (SHE) in thin films typically points out of the plane. This is rooted on the specific symmetries of traditionally studied systems, not in a fundamental constraint. Recently, experiments…

The realization of a viable semiconductor transistor and information processing devices based on the electron spin has fueled intense basic research of three key elements: injection, detection, and manipulation of spins in the semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 K. Olejnik , J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , V. P. Amin , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth

We investigate the spin Hall effect (SHE) in a wide class of spin-orbit coupling systems by using spin force picture. We derive the general relation equation between spin force and spin current and show that the longitudinal force component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan