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The addition of magnetic impurities in topological insulators can drive ferromagnetic order that leads to novel quantum anomalous Hall transport well below the Curie temperature. The fragility of the quantized regime has been ascribed to…

The prediction of ultra-low magnetic damping in Co 2 MnZ Heusler half-metal thin-film magnets is explored in this study and the damping response is shown to be linked to the underlying electronic properties. By substituting the Z elements…

Narrow-gap higher mobility semiconducting alloys In_{1-x}Mn_{x}Sb were synthesized in polycrystalline form and their magnetic and transport properties have been investigated. Ferromagnetic response in In_{0.98}Mn_{0.02}Sb was detected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 V. N. Krivoruchko , V. Yu. Tarenkov , D. V. Varyukhin , A. I. D'yachenko , O. N. Pashkova , V. A. Ivanov

Magnetic semiconductors have aroused interest due to their various functionalities related to spintronic devices. Manganese (Mn) as a substitutional impurity in A3B5 semiconductors supplies not only holes, but also localized spins. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-23 Veronika Burobina

At ambient pressure, bulk SrCoO$_{3}$ is a ferromagnetic (FM) metal in cubic perovskite structure. By contrast, magnetic properties of epitaxial SrCoO$_{3}$ thin films, especially at high tensile strain ($\varepsilon \gtrsim 3$\%), remain…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Sheng-Chieh Huang , Kanchan Sarkar , Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Han Hsu

A number of transition-metal (TM) doped group-IV semiconductors, R$_{x}$Y$_{1-x}$ (R=Cr, Mn and Fe; Y=Si, Ge), have been studied by the first principles calculations. The obtained results show that antiferromagnetic (AFM) order is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongming Weng , Jinming Dong

In this paper, we discuss spin transport in topological insulator (TI) and diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) heterogeneous structures. In DMS / FM (Ferromagnetic Metal) heterogeneous structure, the spin injection efficiency changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Myong Chol Pak , Kwang-Il Kim , Hak Chol Pak , Chol Won Ri , Sang Jun Cha

Carrier-induced ferromagnetic semiconductors (FMSs) have been intensively studied for decades as they have novel functionalities that cannot be achieved with conventional metallic materials. These include the ability to control magnetism by…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-05 Pham Nam Hai , Le Duc Anh , Masaaki Tanaka

A recently discovered magnetic semiconductor Ba$_{1-x}$K$_{x}$(Zn$_{1-y}$Mn$_{y}$)$_2$As$_{2}$, with its decoupled spin and charge doping, provides a unique opportunity to elucidate the microscopic origin of the magnetic interaction and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-17 J. K. Glasbrenner , I. Žutić , I. I. Mazin

The structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of NdFe$_{0.5}$Mn$_{0.5}$O$_3$ have been studied in detail using bulk magnetization, neutron/x-ray diffraction and first principles density functional theory calculations. The material…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Ankita Singh , A. Jain , Avijeet Ray , B. Padmanabhan , S. M. Yusuf , T. Maitra , V. K. Malik

The properties of diluted Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As are calculated for a wide range of Mn concentrations within the local spin density approximation of density functional theory. M\"ulliken population analyses and orbital-resolved densities of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Stefano Sanvito , Pablo Ordejon , Nicola A. Hill

Spintronics, which is the basis of a low-power, beyond-CMOS technology for computational and memory devices, remains up to now entirely based on critical materials such as Co, heavy metals and rare-earths. Here, we show that Mn4N, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-05 T. Gushi , M. Jovičević Klug , J. Peña Garcia , H. Okuno , J. Vogel , J. P. Attané , T. Suemasu , S. Pizzini , L. Vila

The influence of configurational disorder on the magnetic properties of diluted Heisenberg spin systems is studied with regard to the ferromagnetic stability of diluted magnetic semiconductors. The equation of motion of the magnon Green's…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Guixin Tang , Wolfgang Nolting

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

The interplay of tunneling transport and carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in narrow semiconductor multi-quantum well structures containing layers of GaMnAs is investigated within a self-consistent Green's function approach, accounting for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Christian Ertler , Walter Pötz

Unconventional superconductors are often characterized by numerous competing and even intertwined orders in their phase diagrams. In particular, the electronic nematic phases, which spontaneously break rotational symmetry and often…

We develop a microscopic theory of finite-temperature spin-nematic orderings in three-dimensional spatially anisotropic magnets consisting of weakly-coupled frustrated spin-1/2 chains with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-19 Masahiro Sato , Toshiya Hikihara , Tsutomu Momoi

Organic semiconductors find increasing importance in spin transport devices due to the modulation and control of their properties through chemical synthetic versatility. The organic materials are used as interlayers between two ferromagnet…

Magnetic ordering in TbMnO3 was revisited by a neutron diffraction study. In addition to the previously reported A-type and G-type modulated structures with a propagation vector (0,q_Mn,0), we found C-type and F-type orderings of the Mn…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Kajimoto , H. Yoshizawa , H. Shintani , T. Kimura , Y. Tokura

Magnetotransport properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As have been investigated. Measurements at low temperature (50 mK) and high magnetic field (<= 27 T) have been employed in order to determine the hole concentration p =…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Omiya , F. Matsukura , T. Dietl , Y. Ohno , T. Sakon , M. Motokawa , H. Ohno