Probing quantum geometric capacitance via photonic spin Hall effect
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| author | Fernández-Méndez, Yahir Carrillo-Bastos, Ramón Maytorena, Jesús A. |
| author_facet | Fernández-Méndez, Yahir Carrillo-Bastos, Ramón Maytorena, Jesús A. |
| contents | The non-dissipative quasistatic longitudinal optical response of insulators is characterized by an intrinsic geometric capacitance, determined by the ratio of the quantum metric to the energy gap, as recently stablished. We study the photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) in this low-frequency regime, induced by reflection from an atomically thin material serving as the interface between two dielectrics. As a function of the magnitude of this geometric capacitance, covering values typical of graphene-family systems and for incidence close to the Brewster angle, the calculated in-plane and transverse beam shifts become comparable to the wavelength and thus detectable. At sufficiently low frequencies, we derive linear and quadratic approximations that allow the geometric capacitance to be extracted from measurements of the beam displacements. We provide an upper bound for the beam shifts. The results suggest that THz PSHE might be a useful probe of the quantum geometric capacitance of two-dimensional insulators. |
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| spellingShingle | Probing quantum geometric capacitance via photonic spin Hall effect Fernández-Méndez, Yahir Carrillo-Bastos, Ramón Maytorena, Jesús A. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics The non-dissipative quasistatic longitudinal optical response of insulators is characterized by an intrinsic geometric capacitance, determined by the ratio of the quantum metric to the energy gap, as recently stablished. We study the photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) in this low-frequency regime, induced by reflection from an atomically thin material serving as the interface between two dielectrics. As a function of the magnitude of this geometric capacitance, covering values typical of graphene-family systems and for incidence close to the Brewster angle, the calculated in-plane and transverse beam shifts become comparable to the wavelength and thus detectable. At sufficiently low frequencies, we derive linear and quadratic approximations that allow the geometric capacitance to be extracted from measurements of the beam displacements. We provide an upper bound for the beam shifts. The results suggest that THz PSHE might be a useful probe of the quantum geometric capacitance of two-dimensional insulators. |
| title | Probing quantum geometric capacitance via photonic spin Hall effect |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01982 |