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

• Main Authors: Flayac, H., Solnyshkov, D. D., Shelykh, Ivan A., Malpuech, G.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Optics and light
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96552; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9906
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We show that the spin domains, generated in the linear optical spin Hall effect by the analog of spinorbit interaction for exciton polaritons, are associated with the formation of a Skyrmion lattice. In the nonlinear regime, the spin anisotropy of the polariton-polariton interactions results in a...