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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.012402
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We present a theoretical survey of ferromagnetic transition temperatures in cubic (III,Mn)V semiconductors based on a model with S=5/2 local moments exchange coupled to itinerant holes in the host semiconductor valence band. Starting from the simplest mean-field theory of this model, we estimate the T-c enhancement due to exchange and correlation in the itinerant-hole system and the T-c suppression due to collective fluctuations of the ordered moments. We show that high critical temperatures in these ferromagnetic semiconductors require both the large magnetic susceptibility contribution from the valence-band heavy holes and the large spin stiffness resulting from a complex valence-band structure that includes the more dispersive light holes. Our calculations demonstrate that the model of carrier-induced ferromagnetism of these systems is consistent with high critical temperatures observed experimentally in (III,Mn)V semiconductors.
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