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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

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 cooperative behavior of quantum impurities on 2D materials, such as graphene and bilayer graphene, is characterized by a non-trivial competition between screening (Kondo effect), and Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) magnetism. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 A. Allerdt , A. E. Feiguin , S. Das Sarma

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

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

We use first-principles Quantum Monte-Carlo simulations to study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between hydrogen adatoms attached to a graphene sheet. We find that the pairwise RKKY interactions at distances of a few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Pavel Buividovich , Dominik Smith , Maksim Ulybyshev , Lorenz von Smekal

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

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

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

Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) is an essential long range magnetic interaction between magnetic impurities or magnetic layered structures, the magnitude of which oscillates with the distance ($\mathrm{R}$) between them. We have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Anirban Kundu , M. B. A. Jalil

In our previous work (E. Kogan, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 115119 (2011)) we calculated RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities in pristine graphene using the Green's functions (GF) in the coordinate -- imaginary time representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 E. Kogan

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

We consider RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities in graphene. The consideration is based on the perturbation theory for the thermodynamic potential in the imaginary time representation. We analyze the symmetry of the RKKY…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 E. Kogan

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 investigate the effect of vacancy defects on the electronic and magnetic properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (zGNRs) by making use of the Green's function formalism in combination with the tight-binding Hamiltonian. The evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Moslem Zare , Reza Asgari

The carrier-mediated RKKY interaction between local spins plays an important role for the application of magnetically doped graphene in spintronics and quantum computation. Previous studies largely concentrate on the influence of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Shu-Hui Zhang , Jia-Ji Zhu , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

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

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

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 present a theoretical study of indirect exchange interaction between magnetic adatoms in graphene. The coupling between the adatoms to a graphene sheet is described in the framework of tunneling Hamiltonian. We account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Igor Krainov , Igor Rozhansky , Nikita Averkiev , Erkki Lahderanta