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The indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) coupling between on-site magnetic impurities is studied for two kinds of graphene nanoflakes consisting of approximately 100 carbon atoms, posessing either zigzag or armchair edge. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Karol Szałowski

The indirect, charge-carrier mediated coupling between localized magnetic moments is studied for graphene nanoflakes of triangular shape and zig-zag edge. The characteristic feature of such nanoflakes is the presence of a shell of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Karol Szałowski

A form of an indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)-like coupling between magnetic on-site impurities in armchair graphene nanoribbons is studied theoretically. The calculations are based on a tight-binding model for a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Karol Szałowski

We investigate the long-range behavior and size dependence of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in hexagonal and triangular graphene nanoflakes with zigzag and arm-chair edges. We employ the tight-binding model with exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ahmet Utku Canbolat , Ozgur Cakir

Of fundamental interest in the field of spintronics is the mechanism of indirect exchange coupling between magnetic impurities embedded in metallic hosts. A range of physical features, such as magnetotransport and overall magnetic moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Paul D. Gorman , John M. Duffy , Stephen R. Power , Mauro S. Ferreira

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 study the carrier-mediated exchange interaction, the so-called RKKY coupling, between two magnetic moments in graphene using exact diagonalization on the honeycomb lattice. By using the tight-binding nearest neighbor band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Magnetically-doped graphene systems are potential candidates for application in future spintronic devices. A key step is to understand the pairwise interactions between magnetic impurities embedded in graphene that are mediated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Stephen R. Power , Mauro S. Ferreira

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 that the carrier-mediated exchange interaction, the so-called RKKY coupling, between two magnetic impurity moments in graphene is significantly modified in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Using the mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities embedded in $p$-doped transition metal dichalcogenide triangular flakes. The role of underlying symmetries is exposed by analyzing the interaction as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Oscar Ávalos-Ovando , Diego Mastrogiuseppe , Sergio E. Ulloa

We have systematically investigated the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two magnetic impurities in Weyl semimetals with arbitrary monopole charge $Q$. We find that the RKKY interaction becomes intrinsically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yong Sun , Anmin Wang

The interaction between two impurity spins provides vital information about the host system and has been suggested to form a building block in quantum computation and spintronic devices. We here determine this Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Morten Amundsen , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

Magnetic interactions between impurity spins play a crucial role in determining magnetic configurations in spintronic systems. Using a Green's function formalism, we investigate Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anirban Kundu

For low-dimensional metallic structures, such as nanotubes, the exchange coupling between localized magnetic dopants is predicted to decay slowly with separation. The long-range character of this interaction plays a significant role in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. D. Gorman , J. M. Duffy , S. R. Power , M. S. Ferreira

We investigate the effective couplings induced between localized impurities on the surface of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) nanowire within the framework of Ruderman--Kittel--Kasuya--Yosida (RKKY) theory. The itinerant electrons from the chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Rohit Mukherjee , Asutosh Dubey

Carrier-mediated exchange coupling, known as Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, plays a fundamental role in itinerant ferromagnetism and has great application potentials in spintronics. A recent theorem based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. E. Bunder , Hsiu-Hau Lin

We calculated the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between the magnetic impurities mediated by electrons in nanoribbons. It was shown that the RKKY interaction is strongly dependent on the width of the nanoribbon and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Shuo Mi , Shuo-Hong Yuan , Pin Lyu

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

Two magnetic impurities on the edge of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon strongly interact with each other via indirect coupling, which can be mediated by conducting carriers. By means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we find that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-09 F. M. Hu , Liangzhi Kou , Thomas Frauenheim
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