Calculating the Curie Temperature reliably in diluted III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2015-06-24 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We present a semi-analytic theory for the Curie temperature in diluted magnetic semi-conductors that treats disorder effects exactly in the effective Heisenberg Hamiltonian, and spin fluctuations within a local RPA. The exchange couplings are taken from concentration dependent {\it ab initio} estimates. The theory gives very good agreement with published data for well-annealed samples of MnGaAs. We predict the critical temperatures for MnGaN lower than in doped GaAs, despite the stronger nearest-neighbour ferromagnetic coupling. We also predict the dependence on the hole concentration.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405322,
title = {Calculating the Curie Temperature reliably in diluted III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors},
author = {Georges Bouzerar and Timothy Ziman and Josef Kudrnovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405322},
year = {2015}
}
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