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We study the thermal conductivity in disordered $s$-wave superconductors. Expanding on previous works for normal metals, we develop a formalism that tackles particle diffusion as well as the weak localization (WL) and weak anti-localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Lucia Gonzalez Rosado , Fabian Hassler , Gianluigi Catelani

The binary pnictide semimetals have attracted considerable attention due to their fantastic physical properties that include topological effects, negative magnetoresistance, Weyl fermions and large non-saturation magnetoresistance. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-19 Yong Zhang , Xinliang Huang , Wenshuai Gao , Xiangde Zhu , Li Pi

In the present work, we perform a systematic investigation on p-type codoping in (Ga,Mn)As. Through gradually increasing Zn doping concentration, the hole concentration increases, which should theoretically lead to an increase of the Curie…

To clarify the whole picture of the valence-band structures of prototype ferromagnetic semiconductors (III,Mn)As (III: In and Ga), we perform systematic experiments of the resonant tunneling spectroscopy on [(In_0.53Ga_0.47)_1-x Mn_x]As…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Shinobu Ohya , Iriya Muneta , Yufei Xin , Kenta Takata , Masaaki Tanaka

We study the Curie temperature and hole density of (Ga,Mn)As while systematically varying the As-antisite density. Hole compensation by As-antisites limits the Curie temperature and can completely quench long-range ferromagnetic order in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Myers , B. L. Sheu , A. W. Jackson , A. C. Gossard , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

The temperature effect of quantum interference on resistivity is examined in monolayer graphene, with experimental results showing that the amplitude of the conductance fluctuation increases as temperature decreases. We find that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 D. Terasawa , A. Fukuda , A. Fujimoto , Y. Ohno , K. Matsumoto

We discuss the character of states near the Fermi level in Mn doped GaAs, as revealed by a survey of dc transport and optical studies over a wide range of Mn concentrations. A thermally activated valence band contribution to dc transport, a…

We report magnetoresistance measurements over an extensive temperature range (0.1 K $\leq T \leq$ 100 K) in a disordered ferromagnetic semiconductor (\gma). The study focuses on a series of metallic \gma~ epilayers that lie in the vicinity…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-14 P. Mitra , N. Kumar , N. Samarth

We report the first experimental study of the quantum interference correction to the conductivity of bilayer graphene. Low-field, positive magnetoconductivity due to the weak localisation effect is investigated at different carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-14 R. V. Gorbachev , F. V. Tikhonenko , A. S. Mayorov , D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko

We propose a new mechanism of indirect exchange interaction, which can be responsible for the ferromagnetic ordering in Mn-doped semiconductors (like GaMnAs) at low carrier concentration. The mechanism is based on the interplay of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 V. K. Dugaev , V. I. Litvinov , J. Barnas , M. Vieira

We use supercell and frozen-magnon approaches to study the dependence of the magnetic interactions in (Ga,Mn)As on the Mn concentration. We report the parameters of the exchange interaction between Mn spins and the estimates of the Curie…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 L. M. Sandratskii , P. Bruno

We study the magnetic properties of metallic GaMnAs. We calculate the effective RKKY interaction between Mn spins using several realistic models for the valence band structure of GaAs. We also study the effect of positional disorder of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Gergely Zarand , Boldizsar Janko , Pawel Redlinski , C. Pascu Moca

We report on a theoretical study of dc transport coefficients in (Ga,Mn)As diluted magnetic semiconductor ferromagnets that accounts for quasiparticle scattering from ionized Mn$^{2+}$ acceptors with a local moment $S=5/2$ and from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Jungwirth , M. Abolfath , Jairo Sinova , J. Kucera , A. H. MacDonald

We report on electrical resistivity, magnetoresistance (MR) and Hall effect measurements in four non-superconducting BaFe$_{2-x}$TM$_x$As$_2$ (TM = Mn, Cu and Ni) single crystals with small values of the chemical substitution $x$. The spin…

We non-perturbatively analyze the effect of electron-electron interactions on weak localization (WL) in relatively short metallic conductors with a tunnel barrier. We demonstrate that the main effect of interactions is electron dephasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

In this review article we briefly summarize the main experimental properties of (III,Mn)V ferromagnets and outline several different but related approaches that have been explored in an effort to gain insight into these materials. The main…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. König , J. Schliemann , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

We demonstrate electrical control of ferromagnetism in field-effect transistors with a trilayer quantum well (QW) channel containing an ultrathin n-type ferromagnetic semiconductor (In,Fe)As layer. A gate voltage is applied to control the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 Le Duc Anh , Pham Nam Hai , Yuichi Kasahara , Yoshihiro Iwasa , Masaaki Tanaka

The standard treatment of quantum corrections to semiclassical electronic conduction assumes that charge carriers propagate many wavelengths between scattering events, and succeeds in explaining multiple phenomena (weak localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Will J. Hardy , Heng Ji , Hanjong Paik , Darrell G. Schlom , Douglas Natelson

A series of recent magnetooptical studies pointed to contradicting values of the s-d exchange energy N0{\alpha} in Mn-doped GaAs and GaN as well as in Fe-doped GaN. Here, a strong sensitivity of weak-localization phenomena to symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Adhikari , W. Stefanowicz , B. Faina , M. Sawicki , T. Dietl , A. Bonanni

Magnetism in Weyl semimetals is desired to investigate the interaction between the magnetic moments and Weyl fermions, e.g. to explore anomalous quantum Hall phenomena. Here we demonstrate that proton irradiation is an effective tool to…