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Of fundamental interest in the field of spintronics is the mechanism of indirect exchange coupling between magnetic impurities embedded in metallic hosts. A range of physical features, such as magnetotransport and overall magnetic moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Paul D. Gorman , John M. Duffy , Stephen R. Power , Mauro S. Ferreira

We investigate a novel type of interlayer exchange coupling based on driving a strong/weak/strong ferromagnetic tri-layer through the Curie point of the weakly ferromagnetic spacer, with the exchange coupling between the strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-27 A. Kravets , A. N. Timoshevskii , B. Z. Yanchitsky , M. Bergmann , J. Buhler , S. Andersson , V. Korenivski

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities, mediated by Dirac surface states on the surface of a topological insulator, leads to impurities ferromagnetic ordering. We present a self-consistent theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 D. K. Efimkin , V. Galitski

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

The multicaloric effect, which represents the reversible entropy change that occurs when both external magnetic and electric fields are applied, is an interesting phenomenon characteristic to multiferroics. Targeting the multicaloric effect…

The thermodynamics of a spin-1/2 magnetic multilayer system with antiferromagnetic interplanar couplings is studied using the Pair Approximation method. The special attention is paid to magnetocaloric properties, quantified by isothermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-09 Karol Szałowski , Tadeusz Balcerzak

We present all-electrical operation of a Fe$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$-based Curie switch at room temperature. More specifically, we study the current-induced thermally-driven transition from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic…

We study theoretically the RKKY interaction between magnetic impurities on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators, mediated by the helical Dirac electrons. Exact analytical expression shows that the RKKY interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-18 Jia-Ji Zhu , Dao-Xin Yao , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Kai Chang

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

We show that dipole-field induced antiferromagnetic coupling, or RKKY ferromagnetic coupling, between Co layers can strongly affect the low magnetic field switching behavior of Co/Cu/Co nanopillars. Whereas current-assisted switching at low…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Urazhdin , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

Electrical current-induced deterministic magnetization switching in a magnetic multilayer structure without external magnetic field is realized by utilizing interlayer exchange coupling. Two ferromagnetic Co layers, with in-plane and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Sheng , Kevin William Edmonds , Xingqiao Ma , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

We study a model thin film containing diluted bilayer structure with the RKKY long-range interaction. The magnetic subsystem is composed of two magnetically doped layers, separated by an undoped nonmagnetic spacer and placed inside a wider…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Karol Szałowski , Tadeusz Balcerzak

We calculate the temperature dependent long-range magnetic coupling in the presence of dilute concentrations of random magnetic impurities in chiral multilayer two-dimensional semimetals, i.e., undoped intrinsic multilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction even if their wave functions lack direct overlap. Theory predicts that spin-orbit scattering leads to a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya type enhancement of this indirect exchange interaction, giving rise to…

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida effective exchange interaction between magnetic impurities embedded on the edges of transition-metal dichalcogenide flakes, using a three-orbital tight-binding model. Electronic states lying midgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Oscar Ávalos-Ovando , Diego Mastrogiuseppe , Sergio E. Ulloa

The indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities located in the bulk of a two-dimensional topological insulator decays exponentially with the distance. The indirect exchange interaction for magnetic impurities mediated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 V. D. Kurilovich , P. D. Kurilovich , I. S. Burmistrov

We theoretically study the indirect interaction between two ferromagnetic contacts located on the surface of a $d$-wave superconductor. When the magnets are connected to a $\{010\}$ edge of the superconductor we find an oscillating RKKY…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-10 Atousa Ghanbari , Eirik Erlandsen , Jacob Linder

We report a giant magnetocaloric effect near room temperature in an off-stoichiometric Mn-Co-Ge alloy, across the magnetostructural transition. The isothermal entropy change accompanying this transition has a peak value of nearly 40 J/kg-K…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 V. K. Sharma , M. A. Manekar , Himanshu Srivastava , S. B. Roy

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 study magnetic multilayers, incorporating dilute ferromagnetic spacers between strongly-ferromagnetic layers exhibiting a proximity-enhanced magnetocaloric effect. Using magnetometry and direct measurements of the adiabatic temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 M. Kulyk , M. Persson , D. Polishchuk , V. Korenivski