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Gate control of spin-valley coupling

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An electrically controllable spin–orbit interaction at the surface of transition-metal dichalcogenides highlights the wealth of unexpected physics that two-dimensional systems can offer.

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Figure 1: Valence band structure of WSe2.

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  1. Alberto F. Morpurgo is in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland,

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