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Anisotropic exchange couplings, such as the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), have played a vital role in the formation and dynamics of spin textures. This work predicts an anisotropic conduction electron spin density in metals with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Adam B. Cahaya , Alejandro O. Leon

Spin-orbit interactions are known to have drastic effects on the band structure of heavy-element-based materials. Celebrated examples are the recently identified 3D and 2D topological insulators. In those systems transport takes place at…

It is shown how the exchange interaction, the dipole-dipole interaction, and the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction between electronic spin-density fluctuations emerge naturally from a field-theoretic framework that couples electrons to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-01 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

Indirect exchange coupling in magnetic multilayers, also known as the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, is known to be highly effective in controlling the interlayer alignment of the magnetization. This coupling is typically…

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is vital to form various chiral spin textures, novel behaviors of magnons and permits their potential applications in energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, we realize a sizable bulk DMI in a…

Itinerant ferromagnetism, i.e. spontaneous polarization of non-localized particles, is expected to occur for strong repulsive interactions in a spin-1/2 Fermi system. However, this state has proven notoriously hard to find experimentally,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-12 Enya Vermeyen , Carlos A. R. Sá de Melo , Jacques Tempere

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

Motivated by recent synthetic and theoretical progress we consider magnetism in crystals of multi-nuclear organometallic complexes. We calculate the Heisenberg symmetric exchange and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya antisymmetric exchange. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-04 B. J. Powell , J. Merino , A. L. Khosla , A. C. Jacko

The influence of the spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic structure of deposited transition metal nanostructure systems has been studied by fully relativistic electronic structure calculations. The interplay of exchange coupling and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-20 S. Mankovsky , S. Bornemann , J. Minár , S. Polesya , H. Ebert , J. B. Staunton , A. I. Lichtenstein

Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) in interlayer exchange coupled (IEC) Pt/Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$(1.12 nm)/Ru/Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$(1.12 nm) systems have been studied theoretically and experimentally. Vibrating…

In this work, we discuss the nature of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in transition metal heterostructures. We first derive the expression of DMI in the small spatial gradient limit using Keldysh formalism. This derivation provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ahmed Hajr , Abdulkarim Hariri , Guilhem Manchon , Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

A two dimensional ferromagnetic XY model with its bound vortex-antivortex dominated quasi long range ordered phase at low temperatures is a long standing as well as well studied problem of interest in the field of condensed matter. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Rajdip Banerjee , Satyaki Kar

We determine the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction within and between two magnetic cobalt layers separated by a non-magnetic spacer through ab initio calculations. We investigate different materials for the non-magnetic layer, focusing on…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Tim Matthies , Levente Rózsa , László Szunyogh , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

We study the exchange coupling mediated by itinerant carriers with spin-orbit interaction by both analytic and numeric approaches. The mediated exchange coupling is non-collinear and its spatial trends depend on the Fermi surface topology…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hsin-Hua Lai , Wen-Min Huang , Hsiu-Hau Lin

We propose versatile materials based on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in a zigzag silicene nanoribbon (ZSNR) on half filling in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. We show that the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Moslem Zare , Fariborz Parhizgar , Reza Asgari

Proposals for novel spin-orbitronic logic1 and memory devices2 are often predicated on assumptions as to how materials with large spin-orbit coupling interact with ferromagnets when in contact. Such interactions give rise to a host of novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Hans T. Nembach , Justin M. Shaw , Mathias Weiler , Emilie Jué , Thomas J. Silva

We propose a new type of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions which act on high-rank multipolar moments such as quadrupolar and octupolar moments. Here we consider 5d1 systems with broken spatial inversion symmetry, where the interplay…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-11 Masashi Hosoi , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Taichi Hinokihara , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

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

We analyze magnetic phases of monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides that are two-valley materials with electron-electron interactions. The exchange inter-valley scattering makes two-valley systems less stable to the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-31 Dmitry Miserev , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss