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A hight degree of spin polarization is achieved for a Mn atom localized in a semiconductor quantum dot using quasi-resonant optical excitation at zero magnetic field. Optically created spin polarized carriers generate an energy splitting of…
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Method for determining the magnetic susceptibility in the high doped semiconductors is considered. A procedure that is based on double integration of the positive part of the derivative of the absorption line having a Dyson shape and takes…
The muffin-tin model of an effective-mass electron interacting with magnetic ions in semiconductors is extended to incorporate electrostatic potentials that are present in the case of Mn-based III-V compounds (${Ga}_{1-x} {Mn}_x {N}$,…
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We predict the appearance of a uniform magnetization in strained three dimensional p-doped semiconductors with inversion symmetry breaking subject to an external electric field. We compute the magnetization response to the electric field as…
The structural and magnetic behavior of Mn-site doped intermetallic manganese silicide alloys of nominal compositions Mn$_{5-x}$A$_x$Si$_3$ ($x$ = 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 and A = Ni, Cr) have been investigated with a focus to the inverted hysteresis…
We theoretically study the electric polarization in magnetic topological nodal semimetal thin films. In magnetically doped topological insulators, topological nodal semimetal phases emerge once the exchange coupling overcomes the band gap.…
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Time-resolved and time-integrated circularly polarized photoluminescence of excitons and trions in external magnetic fields up to 10 T has been studied in undoped and n-type doped quantum well structures based on ZnSe. In an undoped…
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The magnetization reversal in a single molecular magnet (SMM) weakly coupled to an electrode with spin-dependent splitting of chemical potentials (spin bias) is theoretically investigated by means of the rate equation. A microscopic…
Resonant absorption of a photon by bound electrons in a solid can promote an electron to another orbital state or transfer it to a neighboring atomic site. Such a transition in a magnetically ordered material could affect the magnetic…
Density-functional studies of the electron states in the dilute magnetic semiconductor GaN:Mn reveal major differences for the case of the Mn impurity at the substitutional site Mn_Ga versus the interstitial site Mn_I. The splitting of the…
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The strong electron-electron interaction in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) gives rise to phenomena such as strong exciton and trion binding and excitonic condensation, as well as large negative exchange and correlation…
It is well-known that the Curie temperature, and hence the magnetization, in diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) like Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As can be controlled by changing the equilibrium density of holes in the material. Here, we propose that…
Precession of magnetization induced by pulsed optical excitation is observed in a ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As by time-resolved magneto-optical measurements. It appears as complicated oscillations of polarization plane of…