Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2005-04-07
Phys. Rev. B 72, 014465 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; Revised manuscript 26. May 2005
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.72.014465
The magnetization and hole distribution of Mn clusters in (Ga,Mn)As are investigated by all-electron total energy calculations using the projector augmented wave method within the density-functional formalism. It is found that the energetically most favorable clusters consist of Mn atoms surrounding one center As atom. As the Mn cluster grows the hole band at the Fermi level splits increasingly and the hole distribution gets increasingly localized at the center As atom. The hole distribution at large distances from the cluster does not depend significantly on the cluster size. As a consequence, the spin-flip energy differences of distant clusters are essentially independent of the cluster size. The Curie temperature $T_C$ is estimated directly from these spin-flip energies in the mean field approximation. When clusters are present estimated $T_C$ values are around 250 K independent of Mn concentration whereas for a uniform Mn distribution we estimate a $T_C$ of about 600 K.
Ayuela Andres
Boehm Juhani von
Raebiger Hannes
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