%0 Journal Article
%T Geometrical Spinoptics and the Optical Hall Effect
%A Christian Duval
%A Zalan Horvath
%A Peter Horvathy
%J Mathematics
%D 2005
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/j.geomphys.2006.07.003
%X Geometrical optics is extended so as to provide a model for spinning light rays via the coadjoint orbits of the Euclidean group characterized by color and spin. This leads to a theory of ``geometrical spinoptics'' in refractive media. Symplectic scattering yields generalized Snell-Descartes laws that include the recently discovered optical Hall effect.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0509031v3