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We studied the ab-initio band structures of commensurate twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers unraveling that their in-plane spin textures mostly feature radial Rashba spin-orbit fields. Fitting the first-principles results to established model Hamiltonians, we obtained all relevant parameters such as the spin-orbit and exchange couplings.

Our results have been published as Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review B.

In this collaborative project with experimental colleagues from TU Munich, we explored magnetic proximity effects in Co/hBN/graphene heterostructures and demonstrated a pronounced localized spatial variation of the induced spin polarization of graphene's Dirac states.

Our preprint can be found at arXiv:2601.07781.