Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. 2008. V. 11, N 3. P. 311-313.
https://doi.org/10.15407/spqeo11.03.311


The theorem on the spin splitting of energy levels within the Kildal-Bodnar model
O.V. Dvornik and G.P. Chuiko

Kherson National Technical University, Department of General and Applied Physics 24, Beryslavske Shosse, 73008 Kherson, Ukraine; e-mail: olga_dvornik@mail.ru

Abstract. The semiconductor Cd 3 As 2 is known as a zero-gap material like HgTe or α-Sn but with the tetragonal lattice and in various crystalline forms. One of the forms has no symmetry center, and just this form is stable under ordinary conditions. So, every of its energy bands is split into a pair of spin subbands owing to the removal of the Kramers degeneration. The theory predicts that the total sum of all spin splittings will be equal to zero, whereas the modeling shows the peculiar dependences of spin splittings on the direction and modulus of the wave vector.

Keywords: center of symmetry, spin splitting, Kramers degeneration. elements.

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