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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

Motivated by the recent upsurge in research of three-dimensional topological semimetals (SMs), we theoretically study the RKKY interaction between magnetic impurities in node-line SMs with and without the chirality and obtain the analytical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-22 Zhong-Yi Wang , Da-Yong Liu , Liang-Jian Zou

We consider the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator with proximity induced superconductivity. A superconductor placed on the top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Alexander A. Zyuzin , Daniel Loss

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

We study RKKY interactions between local magnetic moments for both doped and undoped graphene. We find in both cases that the interactions are primarily ferromagnetic for moments on the same sublattice, and antiferromagnetic for moments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , S. Das Sarma

The interaction energy for the indirect-exchange or Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuva-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic spins localized on lattice sites of the $\alpha$-${\cal T}_3$ model is calculated using linear response theory. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , Heba Elsayed

We study the changes in the electronic structure induced by lattice defects in graphene planes. In many cases, lattice distortions give rise to localized states at the Fermi level. Electron-electron interactions lead to the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. P. Lopez-Sancho , T. Stauber , F. Guinea

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

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities, mediated by Dirac surface states on the surface of a topological insulator, leads to impurities ferromagnetic ordering. We present a self-consistent theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 D. K. Efimkin , V. Galitski

We theoretically study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities in both Dirac and Weyl semimetals (SMs). We find that the internode process, as well as the unique three-dimensional spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou , Shi-Xiong Wang , Wen-Yu Shan , Di Xiao

In this study, we investigate the isolated magnetic interactions between two identical Fe atoms divacantly-substituted into graphene. Using density functional theory, we simulated the electronic and magnetic properties for a supercell of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 R. Putnam , A. V. Balatsky , J. T. Haraldsen

We study the indirect exchange interaction between two localized magnetic moments, known as Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, in a one-dimensional spin-polarized electron gas. We find explicit expressions for each term of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-04 M. M. Valizadeh

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

We investigate theoretically the transport properties of two independent artificial Kondo impurities. They are coupled together via a tunable Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction. For strong enough antiferromagnetic RKKY…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascal Simon , Rosa Lopez , Yuval Oreg

Nanosized spherical system of magnetic moments interacting indirectly via the RKKY mechanism is studied. The interaction energy that determines the temperature of the ferromagnetic ordering, depends strongly on the system size. Obtained in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Z. Meilikhov , R. M. Farzetdinova

We demonstrate that the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in graphene can be strongly modified by a time-periodic driving field even in the weak drive regime. This effect is due to the opening of a dynamical band gap at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Modi Ke , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Wang-Kong Tse

We present an analytical method which enables one to find the exact spatial dependence of the indirect RKKY interaction between the localized moments via the conduction electrons for the arbitrary dimensionality $n$. The corresponding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-28 D. N. Aristov

We analyze the Ruderman-Kettel-Kasuya-Yosida(RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities embedded in the helical metal on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators. Apart from the conventional RKKY terms, the spin-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Fei Ye , Guo-Hui Ding , Hui Zhai , Zhao-Bin Su

The surface states of a topological insulator are described by an emergent relativistic massless Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions. In contrast to graphene, there is an odd number of Dirac points, and the electron spin is directly coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Qin Liu , Chao-Xing Liu , Cenke Xu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We investigate the effects of nonmagnetic disorder on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction in graphene by studying numerically the Anderson model with on-site and hopping disorder on a honeycomb lattice at half filling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Hyunyong Lee , Junghoon Kim , E. R. Mucciolo , Georges Bouzerar , S. Kettemann