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Carrier-impurity spin transfer dynamics in paramagnetic II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors in the presence of a wave-vector-dependent magnetic field

Title data

Cygorek, Moritz ; Tamborenea, Pablo I. ; Axt, Vollrath Martin:
Carrier-impurity spin transfer dynamics in paramagnetic II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors in the presence of a wave-vector-dependent magnetic field.
In: Physical Review B. Vol. 93 (2016) Issue 20 . - 205201.
ISSN 0163-1829
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.205201

Project information

Project financing: Supported by the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Project UBACyT 2014-2017 No. 20020130100514BA, and from CONICET, Project PIP 11220110100091.

Abstract in another language

Quantum kinetic equations of motion for carrier and impurity spins in paramagnetic II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors in a k-dependent effective magnetic field are derived, where the carrier-impurity correlations are taken into account. In the Markov limit, rates for the electron-impurity spin transfer can be derived for electron spins parallel and perpendicular to the impurity spins corresponding to measurable decay rates in Kerr experiments in Faraday and Voigt geometry. Our rigorous microscopic quantum kinetic treatment automatically accounts for the fact that, in an individual spin flip-flop scattering process, a spin flip of an electron is necessarily accompanied by a flop of an impurity spin in the opposite direction and the corresponding change of the impurity Zeeman energy influences the final energy of the electron after the scattering event. This shift in the electron energies after a spin flip-flop scattering process, which usually has been overlooked in the literature, turns out to be especially important in the case of extremely diluted magnetic semiconductors in an external magnetic field. As a specific example for a k-dependent effective magnetic field the effects of a Rashba field on the dynamics of the carrier-impurity correlations in a Hg1−x−yCdyMnxTe quantum well are described. It is found that, although accounting for the Rashba interaction in the dynamics of the correlations leads to a modified k-space dynamics, the time evolution of the total carrier spin is not significantly influenced. Furthermore, a connection between the present theory and the description of collective carrier-impurity precession modes is presented.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: diluted magnetic semiconductors; DMS; spintronics; spin-orbit coupling; Rashba field; carrier-impurity correlations; carrier-dopant correlations; spin transfer; exchange interaction; spin polarized carriers
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics
Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Theoretical Physics III > Chair Theoretical Physics III - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Axt
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science
Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Theoretical Physics III
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2017 12:22
Last Modified: 03 Aug 2023 11:58
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/40290