Broken Time Reversal of Light Interaction with Planar Chiral Nanostructures
Schwanecke, A S, Krasavin, A, Bagnall, D M, Potts, A, Zayats, A V and Zheludev, N I (2003) Broken Time Reversal of Light Interaction with Planar Chiral Nanostructures. Physical Review Letters, 91, (24), 27404-1.
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Description/Abstract
We report unambiguous experimental evidence of broken time-reversal symmetry for the interaction of light with an artificial nonmagnetic material. Polarized color images of planar chiral gold-on-silicon nanostructures consisting of arrays of gammations show intriguing and unusual symmetry structures, which are geometrically mirror images, lose their mirror symmetry in polarized light. The symmetry of images can be described only in terms of antisymmetry (black and white symmetry), appropriate to a time-odd process. The effect results from a transverse chiral nonlocal electromagnetic response of the structure and has some striking resemblance with the expected features of light scattering on anyon matter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > NANO |
| Item ID: | 258671 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2003 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:19 |
| Contributors: | Schwanecke, A S (Author) Krasavin, A (Author) Bagnall, D M (Author) Potts, A (Author) Zayats, A V (Author) Zheludev, N I (Author) |
| Date: | December 2003 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| ISI Citation Count: | 43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/258671 |
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