Session Z35: Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: II-VI and Group IV

11:15 AM–2:27 PM, Friday, March 19, 2010
Room: E145

Sponsoring Units: GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.MAR.Z35.14

Abstract: Z35.00014 : Many-body effects in the cyclotron resonance of few-electron quantum dots doped with a single magnetic impurity

2:15 PM–2:27 PM

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Authors:

  Nga T.T. Nguyen
    (Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium)

  F.M. Peeters
    (Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium)

The magneto-optical absorption spectrum of a II-VI cadmium telluride based quantum dot containing few electrons ($N_e=1\div5$) doped with a single magnetic impurity ($Mn^{2+}$) is studied in the presence of a magnetic field. The strongly correlated electrons interact with the magnetic ion (Mn-ion) through the spin-spin exchange interaction which 1) competes with the Zeeman splitting energies leading to the existence of different magnetic phases, 2) results in the coupling of the electron center-of-mass motion with the relative motions leading to significant changes in the cyclotron resonance spectrum as compared to the case without a Mn-ion. At the ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic transition: 1) the ground-state energy exhibits a cusp, 2) the cyclotron resonance energies exhibit a shift, 3) the oscillator strengths are discontinuous, and 4) the number of allowed transitions increases. The cyclotron resonance spectra are obtained which are quantitative and qualitative different for different $N_e$ due to the breakdown of Kohn's theorem. The results are dependent on the position of the Mn-ion inside the quantum dot. \begin{flushleft} \small{Nga T. T. Nguyen and F. M. Peeters, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{78}, 045321 (2008); \textbf{78}, 245311 (2008); \textbf{80}, 115335 (2009).} \end{flushleft}

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