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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

We demonstrate experimentally the fine lateral circular birefringence of a tunable birefringent polymer, the first example of the spin Hall effect of light in a polymeric material. We report experimental observations of this effect using…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-13 Osamu Takayama , Graciana Puentes

Spin orbit interaction and the resulting Spin Hall effect of light are under recent intensive investigations because of their fundamental nature and potential applications. Here, we report an extraordinary spin specific beam shift of light…

When passing an optical medium in the presence of a magnetic field, the polarization of light can be rotated either when reflected at the surface (Kerr effect) or when transmitted through the material (Faraday rotation). This phenomenon is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Viet Hung Nguyen , Aurélien Lherbier , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We describe the spin-Hall effect of light (as well as the angular Goos-H\"{a}nchen effect) at a tilted linear-dichroic plate, such as a usual linear polarizer. Although the spin-Hall effect at a tilted polarizer was previous associated with…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-24 K. Y. Bliokh , C. Prajapati , C. T. Samlan , N. K. Viswanathan , F. Nori

We report the first measurement of the Spin Hall Effect of Light (SHEL) on an air-metal interface. The SHEL is a polarization-dependent out-of-plane shift on the reflected beam. For the case of metallic reflection with a linearly polarized…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-29 N. Hermosa , A. M. Nugrowati , Andrea Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

We investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves through materials displaying a non-linear Hall effect. The coupled Maxwell-Boltzmann equations for traveling waves can be mapped onto ordinary differential equations that resemble…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Falko Pientka , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

The orbital angular momentum Hall effect and spin Hall effect of electron vortex beams (EVB) have been studied for the EVBs interacting with laser field. In the scenario of paraxial beam, the cumulative effect of the orbit-orbit interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Pratul Bandyopadhyay , Banasri Basu , Debashree Chowdhury

An oscillographic study of the Hall voltage with an unpolarized alternating current through a platinum sample revealed choral features of the Hall effect, which clearly demonstrate the presence of the spin Hall effect in metals with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba

We consider an optically thick spherical agglomerate of magneto-optical scatterers with a central isotropic, unpolarized light source, placed in a homogeneous magnetic field. The Photon Hall Effect induces a rotating Poynting vector, both…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-30 Bart A. van Tiggelen , Geert L. J. A. Rikken

We theorize the spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) on a nano-metal film and demonstrate it experimentally via weak measurements. A general propagation model to describe the relationship between the spin-orbit coupling and the thickness of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-27 Xinxing Zhou , Zhicheng Xiao , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

The linear birefringence of uniaxial crystal plates is known since the 17th century, and it is widely used in numerous optical setups and devices. Here we demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, a fine lateral circular…

Spin Hall Effect is relativistic quantum mechanical effect which enables non-magnetic materials show magnetic phenomena without the application of a magnetic field. With spin Hall Effect, one can realize spintronics devices operating purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Dhavala Suri , R. S. Patel

Photonic spin Hall effect in transmission is a transverse beam shift of the out-coming beam depending on polarization of the in-coming beam. The effect can be significantly enhanced by materials with high anisotropy. We report the first…

Spin Hall effects are a collection of phenomena, resulting from spin-orbit coupling, in which an electrical current flowing through a sample can lead to spin transport in a perpendicular direction and spin accumulation at lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

We show that a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled system in the presence of a charge/spin-density wave with a wave-vector perpendicular to an applied electric field supports bulk manifestations of the direct/inverse spin-Hall effect. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-15 Brandon Anderson , Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

Motivated by a recent experiment[Nature {\bf 442}, 176 (2006)], we present a quantitative microscopic theory to investigate the inverse spin-Hall effect with spin injection into aluminum considering both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , Norman J. M. Horing , X. L. Lei

We derive the semiclassical equation of motion for the wave-packet of light taking into account the Berry curvature in the momentum space. This equation naturally describes the interplay between the orbital and spin angular momenta, i.e.,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaru Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

Anomalous Hall effect arising from the noncoplanar spin configuration (chirality) is discussed as a probe of the chiral order in spin glasses. It is shown that the Hall coefficient yields direct information about the linear and nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Hikaru Kawamura

Electrically generated spin accumulation due to the spin Hall effect is imaged in n-GaAs channels using Kerr rotation microscopy, focusing on its spatial distribution and time-averaged behavior in a magnetic field. Spatially-resolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-09 N. P. Stern , D. W. Steuerman , S. Mack , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom