Electronic Structure of Ferromagnetic SemiconductorGa1−xMnxAsProbed by Subgap Magneto-optical Spectroscopy
| Autor: | M.-H. Kim, M. Cukr, Michael A. Scarpulla, Oscar D. Dubon, Tomas Jungwirth, Václav Novák, G. Acbas, Jairo Sinova, J. Cerne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Materials science
Condensed matter physics Band gap General Physics and Astronomy Infrared spectroscopy 02 engineering and technology Electronic structure 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Semimetal 0103 physical sciences Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons Direct and indirect band gaps Absorption (logic) 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Spectroscopy Electronic band structure |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review Letters. 103 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 0031-9007 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevlett.103.137201 |
| Popis: | We employ Faraday and Kerr effect spectroscopy in the infrared range to investigate the electronic structure of ${\mathrm{Ga}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{x}\mathrm{As}$ near the Fermi energy. The band structure of this archetypical dilute-moment ferromagnetic semiconductor has been a matter of controversy, fueled partly by previous measurements of the unpolarized infrared absorption and their phenomenological impurity-band interpretation. Unlike the unpolarized absorption, the infrared magneto-optical effects we study are intimately related to ferromagnetism, and their interpretation is much more microscopically constrained in terms of the orbital character of the relevant band states. We show that the conventional theory of the disordered valence band with an antiferromatnetic exchange term accounts semiquantitatively for the overall characteristics of the measured infrared magneto-optical spectra. |
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