Rashba coupling amplification by a staggered crystal field

Future spintronic devices may exploit spin-orbit interactions, which often emerge from broken symmetries and strongly influence electronic behaviour. Here, the authors evidence the amplification of Rashba coupling by a crystal field that breaks the local inversion symmetry at the Ni site in BaNiS2.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David Santos-Cottin, Michele Casula, Gabriel Lantz, Yannick Klein, Luca Petaccia, Patrick Le Fèvre, François Bertran, Evangelos Papalazarou, Marino Marsi, Andrea Gauzzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11258