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We study the RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities located on the surface of a three-dimensional Dirac semimetal with two Dirac nodes in the band structure. By taking into account both bulk and surface contributions to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 V. Kaladzhyan , A. A. Zyuzin , P. Simon

We employ the formalism of bond currents, expressed in terms of the nonequilibrium Green functions, to image the charge flow between two sites of the honeycomb lattice of graphene ribbons of few nanometers width. In sharp contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Liviu P. Zarbo , Branislav K. Nikolic

We study the competition between the RKKY quadratic and biquadratic spin-spin interactions of two magnetic impurities in twisted bilayer graphene away from the magic angle. We apply the Bistritzer-MacDonald model of two graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 D. O. Oriekhov , T. T. Osterholt , R. A. Duine , V. P. Gusynin

We propose versatile materials based on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in a zigzag silicene nanoribbon (ZSNR) on half filling in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. We show that the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Moslem Zare , Fariborz Parhizgar , Reza Asgari

We study spin configurations of classical magnetic impurities placed close to the edge of a two-dimensional topological superconductor both analytically and numerically. First, we demonstrate that the spin of a single magnetic impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Katharina Laubscher , Dmitry Miserev , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We derive a generalization of the RKKY interaction to semiconductors using perturbation theory on a non-degenerated two-impurity Anderson model. In metals the interaction is mediated by excitations of free carriers over the Fermi-energy. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Schwieger , W. Nolting

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction of magnetic impurities in a superconductor exponentially decreases when the distance $r$ between them is larger than the superconductor's coherence length, because this interaction is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-10 A. G. Mal'shukov

We use quantum Monte Carlo method to study the indirect coupling between two magnetic impurities on the zigzag edge of graphene ribbon, with respect to the chemical potential $\mu$. We find that the spin-spin correlation between two adatoms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-02 J. H. Sun , F. M. Hu , H. K. Tang , W. Guo , H. Q. Lin

A dilute distribution of magnetic impurities is assumed to be present in doped graphene. We calculate the interaction energy between two magnetic impurities which are coupled via the indirect-exchange or Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuva-Yosida (RKKY)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We show explicitly that two approaches to calculations of RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities in graphene based on Green's functions: one using coordinate--imaginary time representation, and the other using momentum--frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 E. Kogan

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

The effective spin exchange coupling between impurities (adatoms) on graphene mediated by conduction electrons is studied as a function of the strength of the potential part of the on-site energy $U$ of the electron-adatom interaction. With…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 M. Agarwal , E. G. Mishchenko

Magnetic impurities embedded in a metal interact via an effective Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) coupling mediated by the conduction electrons, which is commonly assumed to be long ranged, with an algebraic decay in the inter-impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Andrew Allerdt , C. A. Busser , G. B. Martins , A. E. Feiguin

In our publication from 8 years ago (Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 115119 (2011)) we calculated RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities adsorbed on graphene at zero temperature. We show in this short paper that the approach based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 E. Kogan

In this paper, we revisit the effect of flat bands on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction by using a coordinate transformation that detangles flat-band states from dispersive ones. Under this transformation, original…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Yue-De Luo , Min-Fong Yang

We calculate the temperature dependent long-range magnetic coupling in the presence of dilute concentrations of random magnetic impurities in chiral multilayer two-dimensional semimetals, i.e., undoped intrinsic multilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The conductivity of armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of short-range impurities and edge roughness is studied theoretically using the Boltzmann transport equation for quasi-one-dimensional systems. As the number of occupied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hengyi Xu , Thomas Heinzel

The effective interaction between resonant magnetic Anderson impurities in graphene, mediated by conduction electrons, is studied as a function of the strength of the onsite energy level of the impurities and the amplitude of coupling to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Agarwal , E. G. Mishchenko

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two contact magnetic impurities placed on bilayer graphene (BLG). We compute the interaction mediated by the carriers of the pristine and biased BLG as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Parhizgar , M. Sherafati , Reza Asgari , S. Satpathy

The magnetic structures and interedge magnetic couplings of Fe, Co and Ni transition-metal terminated graphene nanoribbons with zigzag (ZGNR) and armchair (AGNR) edges are studied by first-principles calculations. Fe-ZGNR is found to show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Yan Wang , Hai-Ping Cheng