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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 78, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.075201
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Science Foundation [DMR06-03752]
- NSF-IGERT
- NDSEG
- NSF
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While the support for the existence of a Mn-derived impurity band in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ga1-xMnxAs has recently increased, a detailed quantitative analysis of its formation and properties is still incomplete. Here, we show that such an impurity band arises as the result of an anticrossing interaction between the extended states of the GaAs valence band and the strongly localized Mn states according to the valence band anticrossing model. The anticrossing interpretation is substantiated by optical measurements that reveal a shift in the band gap of GaAs upon the addition of Mn and it also explains the remarkably low hole mobility in this alloy. Furthermore, the presence of a Mn-derived impurity band correctly accounts for the metal-to-insulator transition experimentally observed in Ga1-xMnxAs1-y(N,P)(y) with y <= 0.02.
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