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By measuring the spin polarization of GeTe films as a function of light polarization we observed that the bulk states are fully spin polarized in the initial state, in strong contrast with observations for other systems with a strong spin-orbit interaction and the surface derived states in the same system. In agreement with state-of-the-art theory, our experimental results show that fully spin-polarized bulk states are an intrinsic property of the ferroelectric Rashba semiconductor α-GeTe(111). The fact that the measured spin-polarization vector does not change with light polarization can be explained by the absence of a mixing of states with a different total angular momentum J
Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Matthieu Francis Malléjac, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Stefan Rotter
Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Andrei Kiselev, Mintae Chung
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