Nature Communications (Oct 2019)
Rashba-like spin splitting along three momentum directions in trigonal layered PtBi2
- Ya Feng,
- Qi Jiang,
- Baojie Feng,
- Meng Yang,
- Tao Xu,
- Wenjing Liu,
- Xiufu Yang,
- Masashi Arita,
- Eike F. Schwier,
- Kenya Shimada,
- Harald O. Jeschke,
- Ronny Thomale,
- Youguo Shi,
- Xianxin Wu,
- Shaozhu Xiao,
- Shan Qiao,
- Shaolong He
Affiliations
- Ya Feng
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qi Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics and CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics (CENSE), Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Baojie Feng
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Meng Yang
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tao Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics and CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics (CENSE), Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wenjing Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics and CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics (CENSE), Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiufu Yang
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Masashi Arita
- Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University
- Eike F. Schwier
- Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University
- Kenya Shimada
- Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University
- Harald O. Jeschke
- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University
- Ronny Thomale
- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Julius-Maximilians University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland
- Youguo Shi
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xianxin Wu
- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Julius-Maximilians University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland
- Shaozhu Xiao
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shan Qiao
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics and CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics (CENSE), Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shaolong He
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12805-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Rashba type spin splitting – relevant for spintronics applications - is driven by inversion symmetry breaking but could so far not be realized in all momentum directions in a crystal. Here, the authors report on PtBi2 that exhibits Rashba spin splitting in all three momentum directions.
