Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Entanglement and manipulation of the magnetic and spin–orbit order in multiferroic Rashba semiconductors

  • J. Krempaský,
  • S. Muff,
  • F. Bisti,
  • M. Fanciulli,
  • H. Volfová,
  • A. P. Weber,
  • N. Pilet,
  • P. Warnicke,
  • H. Ebert,
  • J. Braun,
  • F. Bertran,
  • V. V. Volobuev,
  • J. Minár,
  • G. Springholz,
  • J. H. Dil,
  • V. N. Strocov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13071
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Inα-GeTe, ferroelectric polarization acts to break inversion symmetry of the lattice and induce a strong Rashba-type spin splitting of the electronic band structure. Here, the authors study how this effect competes with Zeeman splitting due to ferromagnetic exchange coupling in Mn-doped GeTe.