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Spin-orbit coupling and optical spin Hall effect in photonic graphene (1404.6395v1)
Published 25 Apr 2014 in cond-mat.mes-hall and physics.optics
Abstract: We study the spin-orbit coupling induced by the splitting between TE and TM optical modes in a photonic honeycomb lattice. Using a tight-binding approach, we calculate analytically the band structure. Close to the Dirac point,we derive an effective Hamiltonian. We find that the local reduced symmetry ($\mathrm{D_{3h}}$) transforms the TE-TM effective magnetic field into an emergent field with a Dresselhaus symmetry. As a result, particles become massive, but no gap opens. The emergent field symmetry is revealed by the optical spin Hall effect.
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