Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Band splitting with vanishing spin polarizations in noncentrosymmetric crystals

  • Kai Liu,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Junyi Ji,
  • Paolo Barone,
  • Silvia Picozzi,
  • Hongjun Xiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13197-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Spin-orbit couplings enable the electrical manipulation of spin degrees of freedom and so have a central role in spintronic devices. Here, the authors identify an unconventional spin-orbit effect in high-symmetry situations that leads to a linear magnetoelectric coupling in reciprocal space.