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Electrons act constructively

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Interference effects in semiconductor quantum structures provide an elegant way to electrically map the strength and direction of spin–orbit fields.

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Figure 1: Interference transport effects in 2D and 1D spin–orbit-coupled systems.

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  1. Tomas Jungwirth and Jörg Wunderlich are at the Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Cukrovarnicka 10, 162 53 Praha 6, Czech Republic,

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  2. Tomas Jungwirth is also at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK,

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  3. Jörg Wunderlich is also at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK,

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Jungwirth, T., Wunderlich, J. Electrons act constructively. Nature Nanotech 9, 662–664 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.185

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