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Phosphorene is an anisotropic puckered two-dimensional ($2$D) hexagonal lattice of phosphorus atoms. The edge modes in a zigzag phosphorene nanoribbon (ZPNR) are quasi-flat in nature and fully isolated from the bulk states, which are unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 SK Firoz Islam , Paramita Dutta , A. M. Jayannavar , Arijit Saha

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 Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two magnetic $s$-$d$ spin impurities across a tunneling junction is studied when the system is driven out of equilibrium through biasing the junction. The nonequilibrium situation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. F. Schwabe , Ned S. Wingreen , R. J. Elliott

We study the magnetic properties of metallic GaMnAs. We calculate the effective RKKY interaction between Mn spins using several realistic models for the valence band structure of GaAs. We also study the effect of positional disorder of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Gergely Zarand , Boldizsar Janko , Pawel Redlinski , C. Pascu Moca

We theoretically explore the RKKY interaction mediated by spin-3/2 quasiparticles in half-Heusler topological semimetals in quasi-two-dimensional geometries. We find that while the Kohn-Luttinger terms gives rise to generalized Heisenberg…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Reza G. Mohammadi , Ali G. Moghaddam

We study RKKY interaction in non-Fermi liquid metals. We find that the RKKY interaction mediated by non-Fermi liquid metals can be of much longer range than for a Fermi liquid. The oscillatory nature of RKKY interaction thus becomes more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 Jian-Huang She , A. R. Bishop

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in various Kondo lattice systems. We argue that the weak Kondo-coupling expansion contains certain physics which is lost in the usual static approximation to the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Siqi Shao , Yang Ge , Yashar Komijani

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction mediates collinear magnetic interactions via the conduction electrons of a non-magnetic spacer, resulting in a ferro- or antiferromagnetic magnetization in magnetic multilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-05 Jing Qi , Paula M. Weber , Tilman Kißlinger , Lutz Hammer , M. Alexander Schneider , Matthias Bode

As a new two-dimensional Dirac material, 8-\textit{Pmmn} borophene hosts novel anisotropic and tilted massless Dirac fermions (MDFs) and has attracted increasing interest. However, the potential application of 8-\textit{Pmmn} borophene in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Shu-Hui Zhang , Ding-Fu Shao , Wen Yang

Spin polarization induced by an external electric field in graphene is considered theoretically in the linear response regime. The graphene is assumed to be deposited on a substrate which leads to the spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev

The RKKY interaction between rare-earth (RE) ions in high-$T_c$ superconductors is considered at $T\ll T_c$. It is shown that this interaction consists of two terms: conventional oscillating one and the positive term, which is proportional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. N. Aristov , S. V. Maleyev , A. G. Yashenkin

We study the Kondo chain in the regime of high spin concentration where the low energy physics is dominated by the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction. As has been recently shown (A. M. Tsvelik and O. M. Yevtushenko, Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 D. Schimmel , A. M. Tsvelik , O. M. Yevtushenko

Silicene offers an ideal platform for exploring the phase transition due to strong spin-orbit interaction and its unique structure with strong tunability. With applied electric field and circularly polarized light, siliccene is predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Hou-Jian Duan , Shi-Han Zheng , Zhen-Long Sun , Mou Yang , Rui-Qiang Wang

We theoretically investigate the features of Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interaction between two magnetic impurities, mediated by the interfacial bound states inside a domain wall (DW). The latter separates the two regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ganesh C. Paul , SK Firoz Islam , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

Graphene has been identified as a promising material with numerous applications, particularly in spintronics. In this paper we investigate the peculiar features of spin excitations of magnetic units deposited on graphene nanoribbons and how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 F. S. M. Guimarães , J. Duffy , A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , M. S. Ferreira

We study the exchange interaction $J$ between two magnetic impurities in graphene (the RKKY interaction) by directly computing the lattice Green's function for the tight-binding band structure for the honeycomb lattice. The method allows us…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 M. Sherafati , S. Satpathy

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in p-doped transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$. We consider magnetic impurities hybridized to the Mo d-orbitals characteristic of the valence bands. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 D. Mastrogiuseppe , N. Sandler , S. Ulloa

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two classical magnetic impurities in one-dimensional lattice models with flat bands. As two representative examples, we pick the stub lattice and the diamond lattice at…

The Coulomb interaction among massless Dirac fermions in graphene is unscreened around the isotropic Dirac points, causing a logarithmic velocity renormalization and a cone reshaping. In less symmetric Dirac materials possessing anisotropic…

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