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Recent measurements of coherent electron spin dynamics reveal an antiferromagnetic s-d exchange coupling between conduction band electrons and electrons localized on Mn{2+} impurities in GaMnAs quantum wells. Here we discuss systematic…
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p-d hybridization of transition metal impurities in a semiconductor host is the mechanism that couples valence-band electrons and localized spins. We use scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy combined with density functional theory…
We have studied theoretically the effect of a tuneable lateral confinement on two-dimensional hole systems realised in III-V semiconductor heterostructures. Based on the 4x4 Luttinger description of the valence band, we have calculated…
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A long range corrected range separated hybrid functional is developed based on the density matrix expansion (DME) based semilocal exchange hole with Lee-Yang-Parr (LYP) correlation. An extensive study involving the proposed range separated…
We investigate the influence of s-d or p-d hybridization to d-band ferromagnetism to estimate the importance of hybridization for the magnetic properties of transition metals. To focus our attention to the interplay between hybridization…