Abstract
We generalize the multiband typical medium dynamical cluster approximation and the formalism introduced by Blackman, Esterling, and Berk so that it can deal with localization in multiband disordered systems with both diagonal and off-diagonal disorder with complicated potentials. We also introduce an ansatz for the momentum-resolved typical density of states that greatly improves the numerical stability of the method while preserving the independence of scattering events at different frequencies. Starting from the first-principles effective Hamiltonian, we apply this method to the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ga1-xMnxN, and find the impurity band is completely localized for Mn concentrations x<0.03, while for 0.03<x<0.10 the impurity band has delocalized states but the chemical potential resides at or above the mobility edge. So, the system is always insulating within the experimental compositional limit (x≈0.10) due to Anderson localization. However, for 0.03<x<0.10 hole doping could make the system metallic, allowing double-exchange mediated, or enhanced, ferromagnetism. The developed method is expected to have a large impact on first-principles studies of Anderson localization.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 224208 |
| Journal | Physical Review B |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 29 2016 |
Funding
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Cooperative Agreement No. EPS-1003897 with additional support from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Work by T.B. was performed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science user facility. This paper has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. W.K. was supported by DOE Contract No. DEAC02-98CH10886.
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