Broken Time Reversal of Light Interaction with Planar Chiral Nanostructures

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2003-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307056v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 247404 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, RevTeX 4. Small changes, added references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.247404

We report unambiguous experimental evidence of broken time reversal symmetry for the interaction of light with an artificial non-magnetic material. Polarized colour images of planar chiral gold-on-silicon nanostructures consisting of arrays of gammadions show intriguing and unusual symmetry: structures, which are geometrically mirror images, loose their mirror symmetry in polarized light. The symmetry of images can only be described in terms of anti-symmetry (black-and-white symmetry) appropriate to a time-odd process. The effect results from a transverse chiral non-local electromagnetic response of the structure and has some striking resemblance with the expected features of light scattering on anyon matter.

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