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Piezo-Magneto-Electric Effects in p-Doped Semiconductors

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We predict the appearance of a uniform magnetization in strained three dimensional p-doped semiconductors with inversion symmetry breaking subject to an external electric field. We compute the magnetization response to the electric field as a function of the direction and magnitude of the applied strain. This effect could be used to manipulate the collective magnetic moment of hole mediated ferromagnetism of magnetically doped semiconductors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408476,
  title  = {Piezo-Magneto-Electric Effects in p-Doped Semiconductors},
  author = {B. Andrei Bernevig and Oskar Vafek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408476},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures