TY - JOUR
T1 - Engineering spin-orbit synthetic Hamiltonians in liquid-crystal optical cavities
AU - Rechcinska, Katarzyna
AU - Król, Mateusz
AU - Mazur, Rafał
AU - Morawiak, Przemysław
AU - Mirek, Rafał
AU - Łempicka, Karolina
AU - Bardyszewski, Witold
AU - Matuszewski, Michał
AU - Kula, Przemysław
AU - Piecek, Wiktor
AU - Lagoudakis, Pavlos G.
AU - Pietka, Barbara
AU - Szczytko, Jacek
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11/8
Y1 - 2019/11/8
N2 - Spin-orbit interactions lead to distinctive functionalities in photonic systems. They exploit the analogy between the quantum mechanical description of a complex electronic spin-orbit system and synthetic Hamiltonians derived for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in dedicated spatial structures. We realize an artificial Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction in a liquid crystal–filled optical cavity. Three-dimensional tomography in energy-momentum space enabled us to directly evidence the spin-split photon mode in the presence of an artificial spin-orbit coupling. The effect is observed when two orthogonal linear polarized modes of opposite parity are brought near resonance. Engineering of spin-orbit synthetic Hamiltonians in optical cavities opens the door to photonic emulators of quantum Hamiltonians with internal degrees of freedom.
AB - Spin-orbit interactions lead to distinctive functionalities in photonic systems. They exploit the analogy between the quantum mechanical description of a complex electronic spin-orbit system and synthetic Hamiltonians derived for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in dedicated spatial structures. We realize an artificial Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction in a liquid crystal–filled optical cavity. Three-dimensional tomography in energy-momentum space enabled us to directly evidence the spin-split photon mode in the presence of an artificial spin-orbit coupling. The effect is observed when two orthogonal linear polarized modes of opposite parity are brought near resonance. Engineering of spin-orbit synthetic Hamiltonians in optical cavities opens the door to photonic emulators of quantum Hamiltonians with internal degrees of freedom.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aay4182
DO - 10.1126/science.aay4182
M3 - Article
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 366
SP - 727
EP - 730
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6466
ER -