Reentrant Formation of Magnetic Polarons in Quantum Dots
arXiv:1210.1162 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.161403
Abstract
We propose a model of magnetic polaron formation in semiconductor quantum dots doped with magnetic ions. A wetting layer serves as a reservoir of photo-generated holes, which can be trapped by the adjacent quantum dots. For certain hole densities, the temperature dependence of the magnetization induced by the trapped holes is reentrant: it disappears for some temperature range and reappears at higher temperatures. We demonstrate that this peculiar effect is not an artifact of the mean field approximation and persists after statistical spin fluctuations are accounted for. We predict fingerprints of reentrant magnetic polarons in photoluminescence spectra.
arXiv commentAccepted Physical Review B Rapid Communications 5 pages, 4 figures
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