Spontaneous spin polarization in doped semiconductor quantum wells

Details Spontaneous spin polarization in doped semiconductor quantum wells Spontaneous spin polarization in doped semiconductor quantum wells

2004-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409752v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Submitted to Eur. Phys. Journal B

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2005-00159-6

We calculate the critical density of the zero-temperature, first-order ferromagnetic phase transition in n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. We find that the existence of the ferromagnetic transition is dependent upon the choice of well width. We demonstrate rigorously that this dependence is governed by the interplay between different components of the exchange interaction and that there exists an upper limit for the well width beyond which there is no transition. We predict that some narrow quantum wells could exhibit this transition at electron densities lower than the ones that have been considered experimentally thus far. We use a screened Hartree-Fock approximation with a polarization-dependent effective mass, which is adjusted to match the critical density predicted by Monte Carlo calculations for the two-dimensional electron gas.

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