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Revealing the Hidden Spin-Polarized Bands in a Superconducting Tl Bilayer Crystal.

Takahiro KobayashiYuichiro ToichiKoichiro YajiYoshitaka NakataYuchi YaoitaMutsuki IwaokaMariko KogaYituo ZhangJun FujiiShimpei OnoYasmine SassaYasuo YoshidaYukio HasegawaFumio KomoriShik ShinSatoru IchinokuraRyota AkiyamaShuji HasegawaTatsuya ShishidouMichael WeinertKazuyuki Sakamoto
Published in: Nano letters (2023)
The interplay of spin-orbit coupling and crystal symmetry can generate spin-polarized bands in materials only a few atomic layers thick, potentially leading to unprecedented physical properties. In the case of bilayer materials with global inversion symmetry, locally broken inversion symmetry can generate degenerate spin-polarized bands, in which the spins in each layer are oppositely polarized. Here, we demonstrate that the hidden spins in a Tl bilayer crystal are revealed by growing it on Ag(111) of sizable lattice mismatch, together with the appearance of a remarkable phenomenon unique to centrosymmetric hidden-spin bilayer crystals: a novel band splitting in both spin and space. The key to success in observing this novel splitting is that the interaction at the interface has just the right strength: it does not destroy the original wave functions of the Tl bilayer but is strong enough to induce an energy separation.
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