Sensitivity of the MnTe valence band to orientation of magnetic moments

Abstract

An effective model of the hexagonal (NiAs-structure) manganese telluride valence band in the vicinity of the A-point of the Brillouin zone is derived. It is shown that while for the usual antiferromagnetic order (magnetic moments in the basal plane) band splitting at A is small, their out-of-plane rotation enhances the splitting dramatically (to about 0.5 eV). We propose extensions of recent experiments (Moseley et al., Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 014404) where such inversion of magnetocrystalline anisotropy has been observed in Li-doped MnTe, to confirm this unusual sensitivity of a semiconductor band structure to magnetic order.

5+epsilon pages, 4 figures; to appear in PRB

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