Hall effect of light.

By M. Onoda, Shuichi Murakami, N. Nagaosa. Physical Review Letters, 2004

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We derive the semiclassical equation of motion for the wave packet of light taking into account the Berry curvature in momentum-space. This equation naturally describes the interplay between orbital and spin angular momenta, i.e., the conservation of the total angular momentum of light. This leads to the shift of wave-packet motion perpendicular to the gradient of the dielectric constant, i.e., the polarization-dependent Hall effect of light. An enhancement of this effect in photonic crystals is also proposed.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Franco Nori
2. Sahel Ashhab
3. K. Bliokh
4. Abraham G. Kofman
5. Fabio Sciarrino
6. Ling Lu
7. Di Xiao
8. Marin Soljačić

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Franco Nori
2. K. Bliokh
3. Sahel Ashhab
4. Di Xiao
5. Ling Lu
6. Marin Soljačić
7. Q. Niu
8. John D. Joannopoulos

Citations in the corpus

• Nonperturbative theory of weak pre-and post-selected measurements (2011, background): “This experiment resolved long-standing controversies concerning the polarization-dependent transverse shifts of light beams [157,158,161,162] and confirmed theoretical predictions by Bliokh and Bliokh [158,163].”
• Internal flows and energy circulation in light beams (2010, neutral): “…through inhomogeneous [33–43] or anisotropic [69] media or even in free space [46,47] results in polarization-or vortex-dependent transverse shift of the field centroid (trajectory), i.e., conversion from intrinsic AM (either SAM or OAM) to the extrinsic OAM [24,33,34,36– 38, 41 ,42,46].”
• Artificial gauge fields in materials and engineered systems (2017, neutral): “Further spindependent beam displacements are predicted for light beams passing through or reflected by an interface between two homogeneous media [430,431], a particular case being the Goos–Hänchen and Fedorov–Imbert effects for total internal reflexion [432–435].”