Jasiukiewicz C., Stagraczyński S., Lehmann D., Dugaev V.K. and Berakdar J.

We present a theoretical description of the influence of incoherent acoustic phonons on the magnetic anisotropy of magnetic semiconductors. Our theory is based on the six-band Kane model of the electron energy spectrum describing the valence band with k?p Hamiltonian including the hole-phonon interaction term. We include the effect of incoherent phonons through the hole self-energy in the six-band model, and assume a strong laser-pulse-induced flux of non-equilibrium acoustic phonons. The results of numerical calculations of magnetic anisotropy performed for (GaMn)(AsP) magnetic alloy semiconductors demonstrate the essential role of incoherent phonons.

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