Imprinting Spatial Helicity Structure of Vector Vortex Beam on Spin Texture in Semiconductors

We present the transfer of the spatially variant polarization of topologically structured light to the spatial spin texture in a semiconductor quantum well. The electron spin texture, which is a circular pattern with repeating spin-up and spin-down states whose repetition rate is determined by the t...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 130; no. 12; p. 126701
Main Authors Ishihara, Jun, Mori, Takachika, Suzuki, Takuya, Sato, Sota, Morita, Ken, Kohda, Makoto, Ohno, Yuzo, Miyajima, Kensuke
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 24.03.2023
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Summary:We present the transfer of the spatially variant polarization of topologically structured light to the spatial spin texture in a semiconductor quantum well. The electron spin texture, which is a circular pattern with repeating spin-up and spin-down states whose repetition rate is determined by the topological charge, is directly excited by a vector vortex beam with a spatial helicity structure. The generated spin texture efficiently evolves into a helical spin wave pattern owing to the spin-orbit effective magnetic fields in the persistent spin helix state by controlling the spatial wave number of the excited spin mode. By tuning the repetition length and azimuthal angle, we simultaneously generate helical spin waves with opposite phases by a single beam.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.130.126701