Over the past two decades, the research of (Ga,Mn)As has led to a deeper understanding of relativistic spin-dependent phenomena in magnetic systems. It has also led to discoveries of new effects and demonstrations of unprecedented functionalities of experimental spintronic devices with general applicability to a wide range of materials. In this article we review the basic material properties that make (Ga,Mn)As a favorable test-bed system for spintronics research and discuss contributions of (Ga,Mn)As studies in the general context of the spin-dependent phenomena and device concepts. Special focus is on the spin-orbit coupling induced effects and the reviewed topics include the interaction of spin with electrical current, light, and heat.
@article{arxiv.1310.1944,
title = {Spin-dependent phenomena and device concepts explored in (Ga,Mn)As},
author = {T. Jungwirth and J. Wunderlich and V. Novak and K. Olejnik and B. L. Gallagher and R. P. Campion and K. W. Edmonds and A. W. Rushforth and A. J. Ferguson and P. Nemec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1944},
year = {2015}
}