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Engineering of spin-lattice relaxation dynamics by digital growth of diluted magnetic semiconductor CdMnTe
The technological concept of "digital alloying" offered by molecular-beam
epitaxy is demonstrated to be a very effective tool for tailoring static and
dynamic magnetic properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors. Compared to
common "disordered alloys" with the same Mn concentration, the spin-lattice
relaxation dynamics of magnetic Mn ions has been accelerated by an order of
magnitude in (Cd,Mn)Te digital alloys, without any noticeable change in the
giant Zeeman spin splitting of excitonic states, i.e. without effect on the
static magnetization. The strong sensitivity of the magnetization dynamics to
clustering of the Mn ions opens a new degree of freedom for spin engineering.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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