Magnetotransverse scattering of surface plasmon polaritons

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Sep 17;87(12):127402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.127402. Epub 2001 Aug 30.

Abstract

We show experimentally that the in-plane scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) is influenced by a perpendicular magnetic field. The average SPP flux is deflected into the direction perpendicular to both its initial propagation direction and the magnetic field direction. From a phenomenological point of view, this is an analogy to the Hall effect for electrons and a 2D equivalent of the photonic Hall effect.