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Spin-Texture in Acceptor-Bound Magnetic Polarons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Eric D. Isaacs  and
Peter A. Wolff
Eric D. Isaacs
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Peter A. Wolff
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

We outline a theory of the acceptor-bound magnetic polaron in cubic diluted magnetic semiconductors that exhibits a nonuniform magnetization. Calculations show that the manganese spins have an overall z-alignment, but are canted in an azimuthally symmetric way from that direction. This is new phenomenon we call BMP spin-texture. Spin-texture results from valence band degeneracy, and the important spin-orbit effects associated with it. The possibility of studying BMP spin-texture via neutron scattering is discussed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 89: Symposium Q – Diluted Magnetic (Semimagnetic) Semiconductors , 1986 , 91
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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