Orbital-dependent Rashba coupling in bulk BiTeCl and BiTeI

By all-electron ab initio calculations, the layered polar semiconductor BiTeCl is shown to host giant bulk Rashba spin splitting, similar to the recently reported compound BiTeI. In both materials, the standard Rashba–Bychkov model is no longer applicable, because of huge band extrema shifts even in...

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Main Authors: Zhiyong Zhu, Yingchun Cheng, Udo Schwingenschlögl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/023010