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We comment on the recent paper Reconciling results of tunnelling experiments on (Ga,Mn)As arXiv:1102.3267v2 by Dietl and Sztenkiel. They claimed that the oscillations observed in the d2I/dV2-V characteristics in our studies on the resonant tunneling spectroscopy on GaMnAs, are not attributed to the resonant levels in the GaMnAs layer but to the two-dimensional interfacial subbands in the GaAs:Be layer. Here, we show that this interpretation is not able to explain our experimental results and our conclusions remain unchanged.
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A theoretical model is presented which allows to reconcile findings of scanning tunnelling spectroscopy for (Ga,Mn)As [Richardella et al. Science 327, 66 (2010)] with results for tunneling across (Ga,Mn)As thin layers [Ohya et al. Nature Phys. 7, 342 (2011); Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167204 (2010)]. According to the proposed model, supported by a self-consistent solution of the Poisson and Schroedinger equations, a nonmonotonic behaviour of differential tunnel conductance as a function of bias is associated with the appearance of two-dimensional hole subbands rather in the GaAs:Be electrode than in the (Ga,Mn)As layer.
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Using atomic force microscopy, we have studied the surface structures of high quality molecular beam epitaxy grown (Ga,Mn)As compound. Several samples with different thickness and Mn concentration, as well as a few (Ga,Mn)(As,P) samples have been investigated. All these samples have shown the presence of periodic ripples aligned along the $[1bar{1}0]$ direction. From a detailed Fourier analysis we have estimated the period (~50 nm) and the amplitude of these structures.
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We report on the determination of micromagnetic parameters of epilayers of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As, which has easy axis in the sample plane, and (Ga,Mn)(As,P) which has easy axis perpendicular to the sample plane. We use an optical analog of ferromagnetic resonance where the laser-pulse-induced precession of magnetization is measured directly in the time domain. By the analysis of a single set of pump-and-probe magneto-optical data we determined the magnetic anisotropy fields, the spin stiffness and the Gilbert damping constant in these two materials. We show that incorporation of 10% of phosphorus in (Ga,Mn)As with 6% of manganese leads not only to the expected sign change of the perpendicular to plane anisotropy field but also to an increase of the Gilbert damping and to a reduction of the spin stiffness. The observed changes in the micromagnetic parameters upon incorporating P in (Ga,Mn)As are consistent with the reduced hole density, conductivity, and Curie temperature of the (Ga,Mn)(As,P) material. We report that the magnetization precession damping is stronger for the n = 1 spin wave resonance mode than for the n = 0 uniform magnetization precession mode.
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