ErAs epitaxial layers buried in GaAs: Magnetotransport and spin-disorder scattering

Abstract

A detailed magnetotransport study of novel heterostructures comprised of epitaxial layers of semimetallic ErAs buried inside GaAs displays a cusplike anomaly in the magnetoresistance that is caused by spin-disorder scattering at the antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase boundary. The relatively low carrier concentration spares the Fermi surface from being cut by the broken symmetry and only spin disorder contributes to the anomaly.