2003/10/01 by Ewan M. Wright, Wright, Ewan M., Nikolay I. Zheludev +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0310023
Broken P-symmetry is now included into consideration
arxiv created 2004/01/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We elucidate the physical mechanisms by which electromagnetic excitations in planar chiral waveguides exhibit broken time reversal and parity symmetries as recently observed in metallic nanostructures (Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 247404 (2003)). Furthermore, we show that concomitant with these broken symmetries the electromagnetic excitations can acquire fractional winding numbers, revealing analogies between light scattering from planar nanostructures and anyon matter.