Electron correlations in Mn x Ga 1-x As as seen by resonant electron spectroscopy and dynamical mean field theory

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Di Marco, I ^a   Thunstrom P ^a,g   Katsnelson, M I ^b   Sadowski, J ^c,d   Karlsson, K ^e   Lebegue S ^f   Kanski, J ^e   Eriksson, O ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Högskolan i Skövde ^*  (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^g VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; MANGANESE; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARSENIC; ELECTRON; GALLIUM; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MANGANESE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYNAMICAL MEAN FIELD THEORY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESONANT ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORY;

EID: 84886715174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3645     Document Type: Article

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