Impact of Next-Nearest-Neighbor hopping on Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
arXiv:2003.13327 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.245112
Abstract
Being a wide band gap system GaMnN attracted considerable interest after the discovery of highest reported ferromagnetic transition temperature 940 K among all diluted magnetic semiconductors. Later it become a debate due to the observation of either a ferromagnetic state with very low 8 K or sometimes no ferromagnetic state at all. We address these issues by calculating the ferromagnetic window, Vs , within a Kondo lattice model using a spin-fermion Monte-Carlo method on a simple cubic lattice. We exploit the next-nearest-neighbor hopping to tune the degree of delocalization of the free carriers and show that carrier localization (delocalization) significantly widen (shrunken) the ferromagnetic window with a reduction (enhancement) of the optimum . We connect our results with the experimental findings and try to understand the ambiguities in ferromagnetism in GaMnN.
10 pages, 7 figures
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