Dynamics of the optical spin Hall effect
Abstract
We study the time evolution of the optical spin Hall effect, which occurs when exciton polaritons undergo resonant Rayleigh scattering. The resulting spin pattern in momentum space is quantified by calculating the degree of circular polarization of the momentum space image for each point in time. We find the degree of circular polarization performing oscillations, which can be described within the framework of the pseudospin model by Kavokin et al. [A. Kavokin, G. Malpuech, and M. Glazov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136601 (2005)].
Citation
Schmidt , D , Berger , B , Bayer , M , Schneider , C , Kamp , M , Höfling , S , Sedov , E , Kavokin , A & Aßmann , M 2017 , ' Dynamics of the optical spin Hall effect ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 96 , no. 7 , 075309 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.075309
Publication
Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1098-0121Type
Journal article
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© 2017 American Physical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.075309
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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the frame of the ICRC TRR 160 within project B7. The Wurzburg group acknowledges the support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the project SCHN1376-3.1. E.S. acknowledges support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant No. 16-32-60104. A.K. and E.S. acknowledge support from the EPSRC Hybrid Polaritonics Programme grant. A.K. acknowledges the partial support from the HORIZON 2020 RISE project CoExAn (Grant No. 644076).Collections
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