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A microscopic model of indirect exchange interaction between transition metal impurities in dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) is proposed. The hybridization of the impurity d-electrons with the heavy hole band states is largely…
In the framework of the two-band model of a doped semiconductor the self-consistent equations describing the transition into the excitonic insulator state are obtained for the 2D case. It is found that due to the exciton-electron…
Spin, charge, and orbital structures in models for doped manganites are studied by a combination of analytic mean-field and numerical relaxation techniques. At realistic values for the electron-phonon and antiferromagnetic $t_{2g}$ spin…
Recent experiments on the amorphous magnetic semiconductor Gd_x Si_{1-x}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4652 (1996), ibid 83, 2266 (1999), ibid 84, 5411 (2000), ibid 85, 848 (2000), have revealed an insulator-metal transition (i-m-t), as a function…
In contrast to hole-doped systems which have hole pockets centered at $(\pm \frac{\pi}{2a},\pm \frac{\pi}{2a})$, in lightly electron-doped antiferromagnets the charged quasiparticles reside in momentum space pockets centered at…
Rare-earth manganites are fascinating, because they display a wide variety of fundamental properties from magnetism to ferroelectricity, from colossal magnetoresistance to semi-metallicity, and because they can be used in a number of…
We compute the zero temperature phase diagram and the Hall response of the doped perovskite manganites within the model of double exchange and Jahn-Teller coupling, employing the large dimensionality approximation proposed by Millis et al.…
The Zener polarons recently found in half-doped manganites are usually seen as mixed valence entities ruled by a double exchange Hamiltonian involving only correlated electrons of the metals. They can however be considered as ferrimagnetic…
Perovskite nitrides are starting to be explored for their promising properties distinct from their oxide counterparts. Here, through first-principles density functional computations, we study the intricate relationship between…
The interplay of the electron-phonon interaction and of the double and super exchange magnetic effects is analyzed in the $La_{1-x}Ca_xMnO_3$ perovskites with $0<x<0.5$. By using an analytical variational scheme that allows to treat the…
We discuss a hopping model of electrons between idealized molecular sites with local orbital degeneracy and dynamical Jahn-Teller effect, for crystal field environments of sufficiently high symmetry. For the Mott-insulating case (one…
We use a variational technique to study the many-body phase diagram of electrons and holes in $n$-doped and $p$-doped monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We find a total of four different phases. $i$) A fully spin polarized…
The order parameters of the magnetic, charge and structural orders at half-doped manganites are identified. A corresponding Landau theory of the phase transitions is formulated. Many structural and thermodynamical behaviors are accounted…
A magnetotransport study in magnetically doped (Cd,Mn)Te 2D quantum wells reveals an apparent metal-insulator transition as well as an anomalous intermediate phase just on its metallic side. This phase is characterized by colossal…
Polycrystalline samples of the quarter-doped manganites $R_{0.75}$Ca$_{0.25}$MnO$_3$ ($R$ = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er) were studied by X-ray diffraction and AC/DC susceptibility measurements. All five samples are orthorhombic and exhibit…
When holes are doped into a Mott-Hubbard type insulator, like lightly doped manganites of the La(1-x)CaxMnO3 family, the cooperative Jahn-Teller distortions and the appearance of orbital ordering require an arrangement of Mn(3+)/Mn(4+) for…
We present a novel ground state that explain the continuous modulated charge diagonal order recently observed in manganese oxides, at hole densities $x$ larger than one half. In this diagonal phase the charge is modulated with a predominant…
Phase separation and a tendency to form inhomogeneous structures seems to be a generic property of systems with strongly correlated electrons. After shortly summarising the existing theoretical results in this direction, I concentrate on…
We have studied in details the electronic structure and magnetism in M (Mn and Cr) doped semiconducting half-Heusler compounds FeVSb, CoTiSb and NiTiSn (XM$_{x}$Y$_{1-x}$Z) in a wide concentration range using local-spin density functional…
We demonstrate the ability to visualize real-space dynamics of charge gap and magnon excitations in the Mott phase of the single-band Hubbard model and the remnants of these excitations with hole or electron doping. At short times, the…