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We study the magnetic properties of topological insulators doped with isoelectronic magnetic impurities. We obtain that at zero temperature the impurities order ferromagnetically, but when raising the temperature the topological insulator…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Martha Lasia , Luis Brey

Indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in one dimensional systems is a matter of long discussions since Kittel has established that in the asymptotic limit it decays as the inverse of distance x between the impurities. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Joelson F. Silva , E. Vernek

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between two magnetic impurities connected to the edges of zigzag-terminated MoS$_{2}$ flakes. When the impurities lie on the edges of the flake, the effective exchange interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Oscar Ávalos-Ovando , Diego Mastrogiuseppe , Sergio E. Ulloa

Impurity effects are probes for revealing an unconventional property in superconductivity. We study effects of non-magnetic impurities, in a 2D topological superconductor with s-wave pairing, the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the Zeeman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-29 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is an antisymmetric exchange interaction, which is responsible for the formation of topologically protected spin textures in chiral magnets. Here, by measuring the dispersion relation of the DM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Khalil Zakeri , Alberto Marmodoro , Albrecht von Faber , Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

We investigate nonperturbatively the effect of a magnetic dopant impurity on the edge transport of a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. We show that for a strongly coupled magnetic dopant located near the edge of a system, a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Jun-Hui Zheng , Miguel A. Cazalilla

It is shown that the Hamiltonian for a quantum magnetic impurity on the surface of a topological insulator can be mapped to the conventional pseudo-gap Anderson impurity model, albeit with the combinations of continuum states which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-07 Rok Zitko

Topological insulators are insulating bulk materials hosting conducting surface states. Their magnetic doping breaks time-reversal symmetry and generates numerous interesting effects such as dissipationless transport. Nonetheless, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Filipe Souza Mendes Guimarães , Samir Lounis

We calculate exact zero-temperature real space properties of a substitutional magnetic impurity coupled to the edge of a zigzag silicene-like nanoribbon. Using a Lanczos transformation [Phys. Rev. B 91, 085101 (2015)] and the density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Andrew Allerdt , Adrian E. Feiguin , George B. Martins

Helical edge modes of 2D topological insulators are supposed to be protected from time-reversal invariant elastic backscattering. Yet substantial deviations from the perfect conductance are typically observed experimentally down to very low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 V. D. Kurilovich , P. D. Kurilovich , I. S. Burmistrov , M. Goldstein

Topological insulators exhibit gapless edge or surface states that are topologically protected by time-reversal symmetry. However, several promising candidates for topologically insulating materials (such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and HgTe) contain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Arian Vezvaee , Antonio Russo , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

In the theory of dilute magnetic impurities in superconductors, the effect of all impurity spin-components is expressed via a single magnetic scattering rate $\Gamma_\mathrm{m}$. In a more realistic setting, magnetic impurities are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 David Möckli , Menashe Haim , Maxim Khodas

In magnetic multilayer systems, a large spin-orbit coupling at the interface between heavy metals and ferromagnets can lead to intriguing phenomena such as the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, the spin Hall effect, the Rashba effect, and…

A key feature of topological insulators is the robustness of the electron energy spectrum. At a surface of a topological insulator, Dirac point is protected by the characteristic symmetry of the system. The breaking of the symmetry opens a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Stagraczynski , L. Chotorlishvili , V. K. Dugaev , C. -L. Jia , A. Ernst , A. Komnik , J. Berakdar

We study Kondo physics of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ impurity in electronic matter with strong spin-orbit interaction, which can be realized by depositing magnetic adatoms on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 L. Isaev , G. Ortiz , I. Vekhter

We show that Majorana edge modes of two-dimensional spin-triplet topological superconductors have Ising-like spin density whose direction is determined by the d-vector characterizing the spin-triplet pairing symmetry. Exchange coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-28 Ryuichi Shindou , Akira Furusaki , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the influence of spin exchange interaction of impurity scattering on critical temperature of anisotropic impure superconductors. The model of random nonmagnetic and magnetic impurity are revised to cover the effect of spin exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Udomsamuthirun , R. Supadanaison

We demonstrate that a quantum spin Hall current, spontaneously generated at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator, acts as a source of spin-pumping for a magnetic impurity with uniaxial anisotropy. One can then manipulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Aaron Hurley , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

We propose the second-order response of metals in an electric field induced by magnetic impurities which locally break inversion symmetry. The impurities with toroidal moments scatter conduction electrons in the presence of the spin-orbit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-04 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

Coupling of the spin and orbital degrees of freedom on the surface of a strong three-dimensional insulator, on the one hand, and textured magnetic configuration in an adjacent ferromagnetic film, on the other, is studied using a combination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin , Daniel Loss