Unusual directional dependence of exchange energies in GaAs diluted with Mn: Is the RKKY description relevant?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Mahadevan, Priya ^a,b   Zunger, Alex ^a   Sarma, D D ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BONDING; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MANGANESE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXCHANGE ENERGIES; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION (GGA); PROJECTED AUGMENTED WAVE (PAW); STABILIZATION ENERGY;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 19744382651     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.177201     Document Type: Article

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