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RKKY interaction in Mn-doped 4 $\times$ 4 Luttinger systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-06-24 v2

Abstract

We consider Mn-doped bulk zinc-blende semiconductors described by the 4 × \times 4 Luttinger Hamiltonian. In these semiconductors, Mn atom acts as an acceptor providing the system a mobile hole, and also acts like a magnetic impurity of spin S=5/2S=5/2. We obtain exact analytical expressions of the hole mediated Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) exchange interaction between two Mn2+{}^{2+} ions. The RKKY interaction of the Luttinger system consists of collinear Heisenberg-like and Ising-like interactions. The characteristic beating patterns appear in the range functions of the RKKY interaction owing to the presence of multiple Fermi wave-vectors of the underlying j=3/2j=3/2 states. As an application of the analytical form of the range function, from the finite temperature evaluation of the correlation functions, we calculate the contribution of RKKY interaction to the Curie-Weiss temperatures of a particular dilute magnetic semiconductor ZnMnTe where 4×44\times4 Luttinger Hamiltonian is valid.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01967,
  title  = {RKKY interaction in Mn-doped 4 $\times$ 4 Luttinger systems},
  author = {Sonu Verma and Arijit Kundu and Tarun Kanti Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01967},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures