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(110)GaAs表面附近单个Mn掺杂的磁各向异性趋势

Trend of the magnetic anisotropy for individual Mn dopants near the (110) GaAs surface

M R Mahani, A Pertsova, C M Canali

摘要:

本文用微观有限团簇紧束缚模型研究了(110)GaAs表面附近单个Mn杂质的磁各向异性能随团簇尺寸的变化趋势。我们的计算表明,在体GaAs中的Mn掺杂剂的各向异性能量被发现是非零的,在以前的紧束缚计算,是纯粹的有限尺寸效应,它消失的反簇尺寸。与此相反,我们发现,在无限大的集群大小的限制下,在间隙Mn受体能级的三个分裂收敛到一个有限的值。对于一个Mn在体GaAs的这一功能是有关的杂质和它的最近邻原子之间的耦合的平均场处理的性质。此外,我们计算的各向异性能量的子层的趋势,作为Mn掺杂剂是从表面移向集群的中心。与以前的计算相比,这里使用大的簇尺寸使我们能够将杂质定位在表面以下更深的子层中。特别是,我们表明,各向异性能增加到第五子层,然后随着杂质进一步远离表面,接近其体积值而减小。本研究提供了重要的洞察力,通过先进的扫描隧道显微镜技术在半导体表面的单个Mn掺杂剂的电子和磁性的实验控制和操纵。

英文摘要:

Using a microscopic finite-cluster tight-binding model, we investigate the trend of the magnetic anisotropy energy as a function of the cluster size for an individual Mn impurity positioned in the vicinity of the (110) GaAs surface,We present results of calculations for large cluster sizes, containing approximately 104 atoms, which have not been investigated so far. Our calculations demonstrate that the anisotropy energy of a Mn dopant in bulk GaAs found to be non-zero in previous tight-binding calculations, is purely a finite size effect, and it vanishes as the inverse cluster size. In contrast to this, we find that the splitting of the three in-gap Mn acceptor energy levels converges to a finite value in the limit of infinite cluster size. For a Mn in bulk GaAs this feature is related to the nature of the mean-field treatment of the coupling between the impurity and its nearest neighbors atoms. Moreover, we calculate the trend of the anisotropy energy in the sublayers, as the Mn dopant is moved away from the surface towards the center of the cluster. Here the use of large cluster sizes allows us to position the impurity in deeper sublayers below the surface, compared to previous calculations. In particular, we show that the anisotropy energy increases up to the fifth sublayer and then decreases as the impurity is moved further away from the surface, approaching its bulk value. The present study provides important insight for experimental control and manipulation of the electronic and magnetic properties of individual Mn dopants at the semiconductor surface by means of advanced scanning tunneling microscopy techniques.

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