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Fermat Principle for spinning light
Mimicking the description of spinning particles in General Relativity, the
Fermat Principle is extended to spinning photons. Linearization of the
resulting Papapetrou-Souriau type equations yields the semiclassical model used
recently to derive the ``Optical Hall Effect'' (alias the ``Optical Magnus
Effect'') for polarized light.Comment: Final revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D (Rapid
Communication). 5 pages, no figure
Anomalous Hall Effect in non-commutative mechanics
The anomalous velocity term in the semiclassical model of a Bloch electron
deviates the trajectory from the conventional one. When the Berry curvature
(alias noncommutative parameter) is a monopole in momentum space as found
recently in some ferromagnetic semiconductors while observing the anomalous
Hall effect, we get a transverse shift, similar to that in the optical Hall
effect.Comment: 4 pages. A figure added. To be published in Phys. Lett.
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