Author(s): Kunihiko Yamauchi, Paolo Barone, Tatsuya Shishidou, Tamio Oguchi, and Silvia Picozzi
A theoretically proposed oxide-based heterostructure indicates how coupling of spin and valley degrees of freedom may be engineered and controlled via the ferroelectric properties typical of transition-metal oxides.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 037602] Published Thu Jul 16, 2015