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We present Spin-SILC, a new foreground component separation method that accurately extracts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation $E$ and $B$ modes from raw multifrequency Stokes $Q$ and $U$ measurements of the microwave sky.…

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Tunable optical materials are indispensable elements in modern optoelectronics, especially in integrated photonics circuits where precise control over the effective refractive index is essential for diverse applications. Two-dimensional…

Chirally Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) is a transport phenomenon observed in both linear and non-linear regimes, where the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) acts as the key driver and electron tunneling serves as the dominant mechanism for charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Miguel Mena , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

A theoretical study of spin dynamics in non-relativistic particle beams with interacting angular momenta traversing static, spatially varying magnetic fields is presented. The computational framework evaluates sinusoidal magnetic field…

Encircling an exceptional point (EP) in a parity-time (PT) symmetric system has shown great potential for chiral optical devices, such as chiral mode switching for symmetric and anti-symmetric modes. However, the chiral switching for…

We study optical wave manipulations through high-index dielectric metalattices in both diffractionless metasurface and diffractive metagrating regimes. It is shown that the collective lattice couplings can be employed to tune the excitation…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Wei Liu , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Flat optics or metasurfaces have opened new frontiers in wavefront shaping and its applications. Polarization optics is one prominent area which has greatly benefited from the shape-birefringence of metasurfaces. However, flat optics…

Molecules composed of atoms exhibit properties not inherent to their constituent atoms. Similarly, meta-molecules consisting of multiple meta-atoms possess emerging features that the meta-atoms themselves do not possess. Metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-09 Zhaocheng Liu , Dayu Zhu , Kyu-Tae Lee , Andrew S. Kim , Lakshmi Raju , Wenshan Cai

The H1 photonic crystal cavity supports two degenerate dipole modes of orthogonal linear polarization which could give rise to circularly polarized fields when driven with a $\pi$/$2$ phase difference. However, fabrication errors tend to…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-09 C. F. Fong , Y. Ota , Y. Arakawa , S. Iwamoto , Y. K. Kato

Structured light beams with engineered topological properties offer a powerful means to control spin angular momentum (SAM) and optical chirality, key quantities shaped by spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in light. Such effects are typically…

Circular dichroism (CD), arising from spin-selective light-matter interactions controlled by chirality, is critical for advanced applications such as chiral imaging and ultrasensitive biosensing. However, CD of chiral natural materials is…

Chiral molecules can selectively transport electrons of a particular spin orientation, yet the underlying mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we present theoretical evidence that electrons propagating through chiral materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Xiaoming Wang , Yeming Xian , Yanfa Yan

Metagratings (MGs), sparse (periodic) composites of subwavelength polarizable particles (meta-atoms), have demonstrated highly efficient diffraction engineering capabilities via meticulous tailoring of the interaction between individual…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Yuval Shklarsh , Ariel Epstein

In nanoscale photonic devices, the demand for multifunctionality from metasurface 2D optics increases rapidly. To explore fine-tuning in the design metric, we reinvestigated the trapezoid shape copper metasurface with Finite-Difference…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-10 Hosna Sultana

Metasurfaces -- ultrathin structures composed of subwavelength optical elements -- have revolutionized light manipulation by enabling precise control over electromagnetic waves' amplitude, phase, polarization, and spectral properties.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Charles Roques-Carmes , Kai Wang , Yuanmu Yang , Arka Majumdar , Zin Lin

Spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a major experimental probe of chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), yet it remains unclear whether the measured spin polarization reflects molecular chirality itself or the broader…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Amos Afugu , Gyanu P. Kafle , Zhen-Fei Liu

Designing broadband enhanced chirality is of strong interest to the emerging fields of chiral chemistry and sensing, or to control the spin orbital momentum of photons in recently introduced nanophotonic chiral quantum and classical optical…

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems possess versatile magnetic order and can host tunable magnons carrying spin angular momenta. Recent advances show angular momentum can also be carried by lattice vibrations in the form of chiral…

We demonstrate the ability to control the scattering properties of a two-dimensional wave-chaotic microwave billiard through the use of tunable metasurfaces located on the interior walls of the billiard. The complex reflection coefficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Jared Erb , David Shrekenhamer , Timothy Sleasman , Thomas M. Antonsen , Steven M. Anlage

The optical properties of infinite planar array of scattering particles, metasurfaces and metagratings, are attracting special attention lately for their rich phenomenology, including both plasmonic and high-refractive-index dielectric…