%0 Journal Article %A Yin, Xiaobo %A Ye, Ziliang %A Rho, Junsuk %A Wang, Yuan %A Zhang, Xiang %T Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces %D 2013 %R 10.1126/science.1231758 %J Science %P 1405-1407 %V 339 %N 6126 %X When charged carriers move in a magnetic field, they are deflected—an effect known as the Hall effect. Electrons possess charge and spin, a property related to magnetism. The symmetry of electromagnetism then allows for a spin Hall effect whereby the spin is deflected by an electric field. In optics, photons, too, have electric and magnetic components and should thus also exhibit a corresponding photonic spin Hall effect. Using designer metamaterial surfaces, Yin et al. (p. 1405) show that the spin-orbit coupling for photons can be amplified, giving rise to an observable photonic spin Hall effect. The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light is very weak because of the extremely small photon momentum and spin-orbit interaction. Here, we report a strong photonic SHE resulting in a measured large splitting of polarized light at metasurfaces. The rapidly varying phase discontinuities along a metasurface, breaking the axial symmetry of the system, enable the direct observation of large transverse motion of circularly polarized light, even at normal incidence. The strong spin-orbit interaction deviates the polarized light from the trajectory prescribed by the ordinary Fermat principle. Such a strong and broadband photonic SHE may provide a route for exploiting the spin and orbit angular momentum of light for information processing and communication. %U https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/339/6126/1405.full.pdf