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Anisotropic RKKY interaction in spin polarized graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-12 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We study the Ruderman-Kittle-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in the presence of spin polarized two dimensional Dirac fermions. We show that a spin polarization along the z-axis mediates an anisotropic interaction which corresponds to a XXZ model interaction between two magnetic moments. For undoped graphene, while the xx part of interaction keeps its constant ferromagnetic sign, its zz part oscillates with the distance of magnetic impurities, RR. A finite doping causes that both parts of the interaction oscillate with RR. We explore a beating pattern of oscillations of the RKKY interaction along armchair and zigzag lattice directions, which occurs for some certain values of the chemical potential. The two characteristic periods of the beating are determined by inverse of the difference and the sum of the chemical potential and the spin polarization.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2013,
  title  = {Anisotropic RKKY interaction in spin polarized graphene},
  author = {F. Parhizgar and Reza Asgari and S. H. Abedinpour and M. Zareyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2013},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures