Conventional wisdom dictates that an electron's magnetic moment and momentum are strongly coupled only in materials made of heavy elements. An experiment demonstrates a striking counterexample. See Letter p.492
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Shen, ZX., Sobota, J. Taking control of spin currents. Nature 549, 464–465 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/549464a
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