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unusual facts about Rashba effect


Rashba effect

However, while this "toy model" is superficially convincing, the Ehrenfest theorem seems to suggest that since the electronic motion in the \hat{z} direction is that of a bound state that confines it to the 2D surface, the time-averaged electric field (i.e., including that of the potential that binds it to the 2D surface) that the electron experiences must be zero!



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