Magnetic polarons (ferrons) of complicated structure
E. L. Nagaev
Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS, 101999, Moscow, Russia
PACS: 75.30.Vn, 75.50.Pp
Abstract
So far magnetic polarons in antiferromagnetic semiconductors
(ferrons) were assumed to arise due to the charge carrier self-trapping by a
ferromagnetic or canted antiferromagnetic region. If the ferron size is not
very large, they should have much more complicated structure: the
magnetically deformed region consists not only of a magnetized core, which
traps the electron, but also of its surrounding with the oppositely directed
total moment, which repulses the trapped electron. The compensating moment
of the surrounding oscillates with a period of doubled lattice constant and
with the amplitude diminishing very smoothly, on increase in the distance
from the core.