Hall Effect of Light

2004/05/31 by Masaru Onoda, Shuichi Murakami, Naoto Nagaosa · 10 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Magnetic properties of thin films #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.other

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.083901

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 083901 (2004) · 4 pages, 5 figures (8 EPS files), REVTeX

openalex publication_date 2004/08/18 · arxiv created 2004/08/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

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.

Citations

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