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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 835-839Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3105
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
- VILLUM foundation
- Calipso program, TRF-SUT Grant [RSA5680052]
- NANOTEC, Thailand through the CoE Network
- Royal Society through a University Research Fellowship
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan [24224009]
- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- EPSRC [EP/I031014/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I031014/1, 1383002, 1778614] Funding Source: researchfish
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Methods to generate spin-polarized electronic states in nonmagnetic solids are strongly desired to enable all-electrical manipulation of electron spins for new quantum devices(1). This is generally accepted to require breaking global structural inversion symmetry(1-5). In contrast, here we report the observation from spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of spin-polarized bulk states in the centrosymmetric transition-metal dichalcogenide WSe2. Mediated by a lack of inversion symmetry in constituent structural units of the bulk crystal where the electronic states are localized(6), we show how spin splittings up to similar to 0.5 eV result, with a spin texture that is strongly modulated in both real and momentum space. Through this, our study provides direct experimental evidence for a putative locking of the spin with the layer and valley pseudospins in transition-metal dichalcogenides(7,8), of key importance for using these compounds in proposed valleytronic devices.
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