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Spin-wave Relaxation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor
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Spin-wave Relaxation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor

Ching-Yun Cheng
Masters, 國立清華大學, 物理系
2006

Abstract

自旋波鬆弛 稀磁半導體 spin-wave relaxation Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor(DMS)
The Self-consistent Green's function method satis‾es Goldstone's theorem and preserves spin kinematics, whereas mean-field theory does not satisfy Goldstone's theory which predicts gapless spin-wave excitation, and the independent spin-wave theory using Holstein-Primakov boson (HP boson) in path integral formulism fails to preserve spin kinematics. The dilute impurity limit provides the nice translational invariance and allowing Fourier transform. Random Phase Approximation(RPA) lowers the order of Green's function and therefore the spin-wave Green's function can be extracted from two equations of motion. In isotropic coupling case, we've found the atypical phenomena of spin-wave lifetime increasing as temperature raises. Obviously, this spectral function narrowing can not due to thermal fluctuation. We then wonder if this awkward behavior comes from quantum fluctuation and whether this would be corrected to match our common sense that lifetime shortens at higher temperature when anisotropy being introduced, in other words, quantum fluctuation being suppressed. It turns out that neither thermal nor quantum fluctuation is to blame on the trend of the increase of spin-wave lifetime at high temperature. And at the same time we are also eager to look for experimental evidence that'll support our prediction.

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