Spin–orbit coupling in surface plasmon scattering by nanostructures
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The spin Hall effect leads to the separation of electrons with opposite spins in different directions perpendicular to the electric current flow because of interaction between spin and orbital angular momenta. Similarly, photons with opposite spins (different handedness of circular light polarization) may take different trajectories when interacting with metasurfaces that break spatial inversion symmetry or when the inversion symmetry is broken by the radiation of a dipole near an interface. Here we demonstrate a reciprocal effect of spin-orbit coupling when the direction of propagation of a surface plasmon wave, which intrinsically has unusual transverse spin, determines a scattering direction of spin-carrying photons. This spin-orbit coupling effect is an optical analogue of the spin injection in solid-state spintronic devices (inverse spin Hall effect) and may be important for optical information processing, quantum optical technology and topological surface metrology.
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The Berry connection and Berry curvature immediately appear in all intrinsic SOI phenomena, such as the spin-Hall effect.
“Therefore, the Berry connection and Berry curvature immediately appear in all intrinsic SOI phenomena, such as the spin-Hall effect.”
From Spin–orbit interactions of light (2015) · cites this paper as [61]
The introduction (p. 2) identifies the spin Hall effect as arising from spin–orbit coupling and lists Berry phase as one way to engineer optical spin–orbit coupling. It does not discuss Berry connection or Berry curvature, or establish that they appear in all intrinsic spin–orbit-interaction phenomena. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredTwo fundamental concepts underpin the SOI of light: optical angular momentum and geometric (Berry) phases for light.
“Two important fundamental concepts underpin the SOI of light: optical angular momentum 57- 59 and geometric (Berry) phases for light 60- 62 .”
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Geometric phases in optics originate from the coupling between intrinsic angular momentum and rotations of coordinates.
“Geometric phases in optics originate from the coupling between intrinsic angular momentum and rotations of coordinates .”
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The introduction (p. 2) mentions Berry phase as a way to engineer optical spin–orbit coupling, while the Results (p. 3) discuss spin angular momentum in surface plasmons. Neither passage explains the origin of geometric phases as coupling between intrinsic angular momentum and rotations of coordinates; searches for that relationship found no supporting passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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- [1]1. Dyakonov, M. I. & Perel, V. I. Possibility of orientating electron spins with current. Sov. Phys. JETP Lett. 13, 467 (1971).
- Authors
- O’Connor, D., Ginzburg, P., Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. J., Wurtz, G. A., & Zayats, A. V.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- ITMO University (RU)
- Corresponding author
- Zayats, A. V.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2014-11-13
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5327-5327
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1982657959
- Cited by
- 336
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 47 · 2018: 40 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 10.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (TEC2011-28664-C02)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H000917/2)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Keywords
- spin-orbit coupling, surface plasmon polaritons, spin Hall effect, inverse spin Hall effect, circular polarization, directional light scattering, nanostructured surfaces, metasurfaces, inversion symmetry breaking, spin injection, optical information processing
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