Uncovering and tailoring hidden Rashba spin–orbit splitting in centrosymmetric crystals

The Dresselhaus and Rashba effects have traditionally been expected only in non-centrosymmetric systems but recent work has shown that they can exist in some centrosymmetric materials. Here the authors show that the so-called hidden Rashba effect originates from wavefunction segregation enforced by...

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Main Authors: Linding Yuan, Qihang Liu, Xiuwen Zhang, Jun-Wei Luo, Shu-Shen Li, Alex Zunger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08836-4