Theories of the spin Hall effect suggest that spin currents generated by electric fields accumulate spin polarization at the sample edges. Now an experiment has observed this conversion in real time.
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Duckheim, M., Loss, D. Snapshots of spins separating. Nature Phys 4, 836–837 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1121
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