Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2001-08-15
J Phys: Condensed Matter 14, 3751 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX 3; Fig. 1 changed, new references added
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/14/14/308
We consider a mean-field approach to the hole-mediated ferromagnetism in III-V Mn-based semiconductor compounds to discuss the dependence of the hole density on that of Mn sites in Ga_{1-x}Mn_xAs. The hole concentration, p, as a function of the fraction of Mn sites, x, is parametrized in terms of the product m*J_{pd}^2 (where m* is the hole effective mass and J_{pd} is the Kondo-like hole/local-moment coupling), and the critical temperature Tc. By using experimental data for these quantities, we have established the dependence of the hole concentration with x, which can be associated with the occurrence of a reentrant metal-insulator transition taking place in the hole gas. We also calculate the dependence of the Mn magnetization with x, for different temperatures (T), and found that as T increases, the width of the composition-dependent magnetization decreases drammatically, and that the magnetization maxima also decreases, indicating the need for quality-control of Mn-doping composition in diluted magnetic semiconductor devices.
Castro d'Albuquerque J. e.
dos Santos Raimundo R.
Oliveira Luiz E.
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