Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1866836 Physics Letters A 2015 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Chiral fermions exhibit an anomalous spin-Hall effect.•Transverse shift appears in a pure electric field.•In a pure magnetic field spiraling motion is found.

Semiclassical chiral fermions manifest the anomalous spin-Hall effect: when put into a pure electric field they suffer a side jump, analogous to what happens to their massive counterparts in non-commutative mechanics. The transverse shift is consistent with the conservation of the angular momentum. In a pure magnetic field, instead, spiraling motion is found. Motion in Hall-type perpendicular electric and magnetic fields is also studied.

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