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We have systematically investigated the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two magnetic impurities in Weyl semimetals with arbitrary monopole charge $Q$. We find that the RKKY interaction becomes intrinsically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yong Sun , Anmin Wang

We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of magnetic heterostructures composed of ferromagnetic (FM) layers interfaced with three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). Integrating out the topological surface states and computing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Christian Svingen Johnsen , Asle Sudbø

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 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

A form of an indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)-like coupling between magnetic on-site impurities in armchair graphene nanoribbons is studied theoretically. The calculations are based on a tight-binding model for a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Karol Szałowski

Altermagnets are known in spintronics for their intrinsic spin-splitting and unconventional magnetic responses, particularly to magnetic impurities. However, effectively controlling the magnetic exchange interactions in altermagnets is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Ulrich Zülicke , Jamal Berakdar , Jacob Linder , James K. Freericks

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

In this letter, we demonstrate switching of nanomagnets through RKKY interactions in topological insulator-based magnetoelectric devices. The switching speed is dependent on the size of the ferromagnets.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Bahniman Ghosh , Urmimala Roy , Rik Dey , Tanmoy Pramanik , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

The interaction between two impurity spins provides vital information about the host system and has been suggested to form a building block in quantum computation and spintronic devices. We here determine this Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Morten Amundsen , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two magnetic $s$-$d$ spin impurities across a tunneling junction is studied when the system is driven out of equilibrium through biasing the junction. The nonequilibrium situation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. F. Schwabe , Ned S. Wingreen , R. J. Elliott

We investigate the effective couplings induced between localized impurities on the surface of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) nanowire within the framework of Ruderman--Kittel--Kasuya--Yosida (RKKY) theory. The itinerant electrons from the chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Rohit Mukherjee , Asutosh Dubey

The Ruderman--Kittel--Kasuya--Yosida (RKKY) interaction governs the coupling between localized spins and is strongly affected by the environment in which these spins reside. In superconductors, this interaction becomes long-ranged and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-15 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder

We simulate the indirect exchange interaction between Mn-rich Mn(Ga)As nanoclusters in GaAs by analytical means. In contrast to the conventional Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) formula which considers the mediation by the carriers in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-09 Ching-Hao Chang , T. M. Hong

Altermagnets, characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking without net magnetization and momentum-dependent spin-split bands, offer a promising platform for spintronics due to their anisotropic spin textures and potential for tunable…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Bui D. Hoi

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

We demonstrate in theory that it is possible to all-electrically manipulate the RKKY interaction in a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas embedded in a semiconductor heterostructure, in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Jia-Ji Zhu , Kai Chang , Ren-Bao Liu , Hai-Qing Lin

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 demonstrate that the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in graphene can be strongly modified by a time-periodic driving field even in the weak drive regime. This effect is due to the opening of a dynamical band gap at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Modi Ke , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Wang-Kong Tse

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

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction of magnetic impurities in a superconductor exponentially decreases when the distance $r$ between them is larger than the superconductor's coherence length, because this interaction is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-10 A. G. Mal'shukov