Non-Hermitian Spin-Hall Effect in Topological Metasurfaces

Svetlana Kiriushechkina, Anton Vakulenko, Daria Smirnova, Sriram Guddala, Filipp Komissarenko, Monica Allen, Jeffery Allen, Alexander B. Khanikaev*

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    Abstract

    We demonstrate that, for suitable trapping one-dimensional Dirac potentials, there exist guided modes exhibiting spin-dependent field distributions, which may give rise to their different coupling efficiency to the radiative continuum or light-matter coupling properties. For leaky open Dirac metasurfaces this should manifest in different transport and radiative properties of modes of opposite spin 3 the non-Hermitian spin-Hall effect. We use silicon nanophotonic metasurfaces that support pseudo-spin degree of freedom as a testing platform to experimentally confirm such spin-dependent non-Hermitian properties of spin-full photonic Dirac waveguides.

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