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We study local moment formation for adatoms on bilayer graphene (BLG) within a mean-field theory of the Anderson impurity model. The wavefunctions of the BLG electrons induce strong particle-hole asymmetry and band dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Matthew Killi , Dariush Heidarian , Arun Paramekanti

We study the Ruderman-Kittle-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in the presence of spin polarized two dimensional Dirac fermions. We show that a spin polarization along the z-axis mediates an anisotropic interaction which corresponds to a XXZ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 F. Parhizgar , Reza Asgari , S. H. Abedinpour , M. Zareyan

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

Magnetic impurities in real materials can mask the intrinsic spin-dependent properties of hosts. They interact indirectly through the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) mechanism, which limits the use of isolated impurity spins in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Pei-Hao Fu , James K. Freericks

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

Motivated by the research interests on realizing flat bands and magnetization plateaus in kagome lattices, we study the electronic properties and magnetic interactions in both zero- and one-dimensional triangular Kagome lattice (1D-TKL)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Moslem Zare

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 absence of an energy gap separating valence and conduction bands makes the low-energy electronic properties of graphene and its multi-layers sensitive to electron-electron interactions. In bilayers, for instance, interactions are…

Within this paper we show the importance of accurate implementations of the RKKY interactions for antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic layers with thicknesses exceeding the exchange length. In order to evaluate the performance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-05 Dieter Suess , Sabri Koraltan , Florian Slanovc , Florian Bruckner , Claas Abert

Twisted 2D layered materials have garnered a lot of attention recently as a class of 2D materials whose interlayer interactions and electronic properties are dictated by the relative rotation / twist angle between the adjacent layers. In…

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 demonstrate a 20-fold enhancement in the strength of the RKKY interlayer exchange in dilute-ferromagnet/normal-metal multilayers by incorporating ultrathin Fe layers at the interfaces. Additionally, the resulting increase in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Milton Persson , Mykola M. Kulyk , Erik Holmgren , Gabriele Pasquale , Vladislav Korenivski

We study the stabilization of an isolated magnetic skyrmion in a magnetic monolayer on a nonmagnetic conducting substrate via the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interaction. Two different types of the substrate are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Alla V. Bezvershenko , Alexei K. Kolezhuk , Boris A. Ivanov

This article reviews progress in the theoretical modelling of the electronic structure of rotationally faulted multilayer graphenes. In these systems the crystallographic axes of neighboring layers are misaligned so that the layer stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. J. Mele

Using the multiband model we analyze the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between the magnetic impurities in layered ferropnictide superconductors. In the normal state the interaction is spin isotropic and is dominated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-14 Alireza Akbari , Ilya Eremin , Peter Thalmeier

We analyze the many-body properties of bilayer graphene (BLG) at charge neutrality, governed by long range interactions between electrons. Perturbation theory in a large number of flavors is used in which the interactions are described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

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 theoretically investigate the effect of the non-magnetic and magnetic impurities to the 2D parabolic Dirac system. The induced charge density by the charged impuri- ty is obtained by the linear response theory within the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Chen-Huan Wu

We study the interaction between two magnetic adatom impurities in graphene using the Anderson model. The two-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian is solved numerically by using the quantum Monte Carlo technique. We find that the inter-impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 A. D. Guclu , Nejat Bulut

We present a systematic study of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ films under both dark and illuminated conditions. In the dark, the intrinsic magnetism of MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ is shown to yield a stronger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Ya-Xi Li , Zi-Jian Chen , Rui-Qiang Wang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan