Spin waves and the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As

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ContentsPreface 41 Introduction 132 Motivation and outline 193 (Ga,Mn)As as a dilute magnetic semiconductor 233.1 Brief history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.2 Crystal structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263.3 Mn impurities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.4 Lattice strain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Origin of magnetism in (Ga,Mn)As 334.1 Exchange interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334.2 Mechanisms of magnetic ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354.2.1 Superexchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.2.2 Bloembergen–Rowland mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . 374.2.3 Double exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374.2.4 RKKY interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384.2.5 The p–d Zener model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394.2.6 Bound magnetic polarons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.3 Magnetic regimes in (Ga,Mn)As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Band structure of (Ga,Mn)As 455.1 Reciprocal space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.2 Band structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485.3 Spin-orbit coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525.4 Inversion symmetry breaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535.4.1 Bulk inversion asymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545.4.2 Structure inversion asymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555.5 The effect of strain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565.6 The effect of sp–d exchange coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
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Page 3 and 4: AcknowledgementsI would like to tha
Page 5 and 6: Curriculum VitaeEducation and Train
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Page 27 and 28: GaAsMna 2a 3a 1dFigure 3.1: (Ga,Mn)
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Page 33 and 34: Chapter 4Origin of magnetism in(Ga,
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Chapter 6Band structure methodsIn t
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the higher-lying ones can be taken
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Parameter Kohn-Luttinger Kane (set
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and Q ǫ and R ǫ are the following
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ThematrixM kso describesthek-depend
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a b c022−0.2−0.41.51.5−2 −1
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It is easy to see that the basis st
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dependence on the interatomic dista
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35 spds*sps*302520151050−5−10L
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40-orbital spds ⋆ tight-binding a
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adjacentmagneticmomentsandtheirexci
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consistent and can accommodate any
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which gives for M ′ ≤ N( ) NΩ
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One can associate each lattice spin
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volume. For P carriers, the Fermi e
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FMFigure 7.3: Free energy F of the
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MT1 2 3 4TFigure 7.6: Average magne
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the ions’ magnetisation changes.
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Because of the spin-orbit coupling
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my perturbation calculus invalid. H
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Due to the equality ∆ = NSβ/V, t
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of the lattice ions. It ignores the
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in the vicinity of the Γ point, in
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shinskii-Moriyaexchange. Someofthem
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emaining terms).I want to obtain th
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where excitation modes are spin wav
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SPIN−WAVE DISPERSION ω q(meV)654
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the coefficients of the q-dependent
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where p αβ = A µναβ q µq ν
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stiffness tensors in a similar mann
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Figure9.7: Cycloidalspinstructurein
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yφxK surf0 , l = 0 l = 1 ... l = L
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two pictures is especially apparent
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due to the multiplicity of the vale
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hh COMPOSITIONso COMPOSITION0.80.60
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mean-field Brillouin function (8.1)
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ters for numerical simulations, I s
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EXCHANGE STIFFNESS (pJ/m)0.40.30.20
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the employed Landau-Lifshitz equati
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netisation. The basic theoretical m
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M z [242] and has a weak anisotropy
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the periodic parts of the modified
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model used must also have enough ro
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AH CONDUCTIVITY σ xy(S/cm)10080604
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AH CONDUCTIVITY σ xy(S/cm)14012010
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the negative AHE conductivity is ob
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Figure 10.10: Hall conductivity vs.
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crystals, which provide full contro
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form of statistical DMFT (statDMFT)
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FigureA.1: Relationsbetweensoftware
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