Giant spin splitting, strong valley selective circular dichroism and valley-spin coupling induced in silicene

Qu, Jinfeng; Peng, Xiangyang; Xiao, Di; Zhong, Jianxin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075418

Title: Giant spin splitting, strong valley selective circular dichroism and valley-spin coupling induced in silicene

Journal Article · Mon Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075418· OSTI ID:1294723

Qu, Jinfeng; Peng, Xiangyang; Xiao, Di; Zhong, Jianxin

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