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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

Recent neutron scattering and thermodynamic measurements suggest that Weyl electrons in the emergent Weyl semimetal SmAlSi mediate unconventional magnetic interactions and induce spiral magnetic order. In this work, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Lasin Thaivalappil , Rahul Verma , Hsin Lin , Bahadur Singh , Shin-Ming Huang

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

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

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

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 study the RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities located on the surface of a three-dimensional Dirac semimetal with two Dirac nodes in the band structure. By taking into account both bulk and surface contributions to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 V. Kaladzhyan , A. A. Zyuzin , P. Simon

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

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

Recently, abundant transport phenomena characterizing the surface states of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been reported. To generate these phenomena, electrons have to complete a closed intersurface orbit. Due to the unavoidable impurities in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Hou-Jian Duan , Yong-Jia Wu , Ming-Xun Deng , Ruiqiang Wang , Mou Yang

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 study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction mediated by helical edge states in quantum spin hall system. The helical edge states induce an in-plane noncollinear exchange coupling between two local spins, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jinhua Gao , Weiqiang Chen , X. C. Xie , Fu-chun Zhang

We calculate the indirect charge carrier mediated Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities for two selected graphene nanoflakes containing four hexagonal rings in their structure, differing by their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Karol Szałowski

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 determine theoretically the interaction between two magnetic impurities embedded in a spin-split $s$-wave superconductor. The spin-splitting in the superconductor gives rise to two different interaction types between the impurity spins,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-07 Atousa Ghanbari , Jacob Linder

We theoretically explore the RKKY interaction mediated by spin-3/2 quasiparticles in half-Heusler topological semimetals in quasi-two-dimensional geometries. We find that while the Kohn-Luttinger terms gives rise to generalized Heisenberg…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Reza G. Mohammadi , Ali G. Moghaddam

We present a theory for the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction mediated by a two-dimensional (2D) electron system subjected to periodic driving. This is demonstrated for a heterostructure consisting of two ferromagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Wang-Kong Tse

We analyze the Ruderman-Kettel-Kasuya-Yosida(RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities embedded in the helical metal on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators. Apart from the conventional RKKY terms, the spin-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Fei Ye , Guo-Hui Ding , Hui Zhai , Zhao-Bin Su

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

The surface spin states for bismuth thin films were investigated using an $sp^3$ tight-binding model. The model explains the experimental observations using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, including the Fermi surface, the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Kazuo Saito , Hirokatsu Sawahata , Takashi Komine , Tomosuke Aono
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