Divide and polarize

Bernhard Urbaszek (1) , Xavier Marie (1)

1 LPCNO - Laboratoire de physique et chimie des nano-objets

The valley index of an electron is a magnetic moment that can be initialized optically and probed electrically. Now, experiments reveal how magnetic fields can break the degeneracy for states with different valley indices.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Bernhard Urbaszek, Xavier Marie. Divide and polarize. Nature Physics, 2015, 11 (2), pp.94-95. ⟨hal-02052752⟩