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ArticleNature materials2026

Brownian spin-locking effect.

Xiao Zhang, Peiyang Chen, Mei Li, Yuzhi Shi, Erez Hasman, Bo Wang, Xianfeng Chen

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Article in Nature materials, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Xiao Zhang *State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-2611-5735
Peiyang Chen *State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Mei LiState Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-9257-7005
Yuzhi ShiInstitute of Precision Optical Engineering, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9041-0462
Erez HasmanAtomic-Scale Photonics Laboratory, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, and Helen Diller Quantum Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. mehasman@technion.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3419-8815
Bo WangState Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. wangbo89@sjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-1845
Xianfeng ChenState Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7574-2047

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brownian systems are characterized by spatiotemporal disorder, which arises from the erratic motion of particles driven by thermal fluctuations. When light interacts with such systems, it typically produces unpolarized and uncorrelated fields. Here we report the observation of a large-scale spin-locking effect of light within a Brownian medium. In an observation direction perpendicular to the incident wave's momentum, scattering naturally divides into two diffusion regions, each associated with an opposite spin from the Brownian nanoparticles. This effect arises from the intrinsic spin-orbit interactions of scattering from individual nanoparticles, which ubiquitously generate radiative spin fields that propagate through the Brownian medium with multiple incoherent scattering. It offers an experimental platform for exploring macroscale spin behaviour of diffused light, with potential applications in precision metrology for measuring various nanoparticle properties. Our findings may inspire the study of analogous phenomena for different waves from unusual spin-orbit interactions in complex disordered systems.

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