Transmutation of skyrmions to half-solitons driven by the nonlinear optical spin hall effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Flayac, H ^a   Solnyshkov, D D ^a   Shelykh, I A ^b,c   Malpuech, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC EMISSION; EXCITON POLARITONS; LINEAR OPTICAL; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; SKYRMION LATTICES; SKYRMIONS; SPATIAL COMPRESSION; SPIN ANISOTROPY; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN DOMAINS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN HALL EFFECT;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84872036416     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.016404     Document Type: Article

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