It is commonly believed that solids with spatial inversion symmetry do not display spin–orbit effects. However, first-principles calculations now reveal unexpected spin structure for centrosymmetric crystals.
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Partoens, B. Hide and seek. Nature Phys 10, 333–334 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2956
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