Table 1. Effect of the presence or absence of the inversion symmetry on the intra- () and inter-band (L) SOC and on the energy splitting of spin-states in the same band, εk,↑ − εk,↓.
inversion symmetry | broken inv. symm. | |
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0 | finite | |
L | finite | finite |
εk,↑ − εk,↓ | 0 | finite |