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Piezo-Magneto-Electric Effects in p-Doped Semiconductors

arXiv:cond-mat/0408476 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.033203

Abstract

We predict the appearance of a uniform magnetization in strained three dimensional p-doped semiconductors with inversion symmetry breaking subject to an external electric field. We compute the magnetization response to the electric field as a function of the direction and magnitude of the applied strain. This effect could be used to manipulate the collective magnetic moment of hole mediated ferromagnetism of magnetically doped semiconductors.

4 pages, 3 figures