Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Direct evidence of hidden local spin polarization in a centrosymmetric superconductor LaO0.55 F0.45BiS2

  • Shi-Long Wu,
  • Kazuki Sumida,
  • Koji Miyamoto,
  • Kazuaki Taguchi,
  • Tomoki Yoshikawa,
  • Akio Kimura,
  • Yoshifumi Ueda,
  • Masashi Arita,
  • Masanori Nagao,
  • Satoshi Watauchi,
  • Isao Tanaka,
  • Taichi Okuda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02058-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The local broken symmetry induced spin-splitting in centrosymmetric materials has been predicted previously. Here the authors provide spectroscopic evidence for the coexistence of Rashba-like and Dresselhaus-like spin textures in centrosymmetric electron doped superconductor La(O,F)BiS2.