Thermal destruction of spin-polaron bands in the narrow-gap correlated semiconductors FeGa3 and FeSb2 |
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Authors: | Storchak Vyacheslav G Brewer Jess H Lichti Roger L Hu Rongwei Petrovic Cedomir |
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Institution: | Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Square 1, Moscow 123182, Russia. mussr@triumf.ca |
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Abstract: | We report muon spin rotation spectra in the narrow-gap semiconductors FeGa(3) and FeSb(2) consistent with a narrow band of small spin polarons (SPs). The characteristic sizes obtained for these SPs are R(FeGa(3)) ≈ 0.3-0.6 nm and R(FeSb (2)) ≈ 0.3 nm, respectively. Such SP states are expected to originate from the exchange correlations between localized and itinerant electrons. Our data suggest that SP bands are formed at low temperature, but are destroyed by thermal fluctuations above 10 K in FeGa(3) and above 7 K in FeSb(2). Formation of such SP band states can explain many of the low-temperature properties of these materials. |
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