Spin interactions of interstitial Mn ions in ferromagnetic GaMnAs

Details Spin interactions of interstitial Mn ions in ferromagnetic GaMnAs Spin interactions of interstitial Mn ions in ferromagnetic GaMnAs

2002-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212093v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.67.121204

The recently reported Rutherford backscattering and particle-induced X-ray emission experiments have revealed that in low-temperature MBE grown GaMnAs a significant part of the incorporated Mn atoms occupies tetrahedral interstitial sites in the lattice. Here we study the magnetic properties of these interstitial ions. We show that they do not participate in the hole-induced ferromagnetism. Moreover, Mn interstitial double donors may form pairs with the nearest substitutional Mn acceptors - our calculations evidence that the spins in such pairs are antiferromagnetically coupled by the superexchange. We also show that for the Mn ion in the other, hexagonal, interstitial position (which seems to be the case in the GaMnBeAs samples) the p-d interactions with the holes, responsible for the ferromagnetism, are very much suppressed.

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