Friday, June 7, 2013

1306.1474 (M. Kobayashi et al.)

Electronic excitations of magnetic impurity state in diluted magnetic
semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As
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M. Kobayashi, H. Niwa, Y. Takeda, A. Fujimori, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, A. Tanaka, S. Ohya, P. N. Hai, M. Tanaka, Y. Harada, M. Oshima
The electronic structure of doped Mn in (Ga,Mn)As is studied by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). From configuration-interaction cluster-model calculations, the line shapes of the Mn $L_3$ RIXS spectra can be explained by $d$-$d$ excitations from the Mn$^{3+}$ ground state, dominated by charge-transferred states, rather than a Mn$^{2+}$ ground state. Unlike archetypical $d$-$d$ excitation, the peak widths are broader than the experimental energy resolution. We attribute the broadening to a finite lifetime of the $d$-$d$ excitations, which decay rapidly to electron-hole pairs in the host valence and conduction bands through hybridization of the Mn $3d$ orbital with the ligand band.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1474

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