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Realizing ideal Weyl semimetal state with a single pair of Weyl points has been a long-sought goal in the field of topological semimetals. Here, we reveal such a state in the Cr-based half-Heusler compounds XCrTe (X=K, Rb). We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Hongshuang Liu , Jin Cao , Zeying Zhang , Jiashuo Liang , Liying Wang , Shengyuan A. Yang

We present the results of analytical evaluation of the indirect RKKY interaction in a layered metal with nearly nested (almost squared) Fermi surface. The final expressions are obtained in closed form as a combination of Bessel functions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 D. N. Aristov , S. V. Maleyev

The indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) coupling between on-site magnetic impurities is studied for two kinds of graphene nanoflakes consisting of approximately 100 carbon atoms, posessing either zigzag or armchair edge. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Karol Szałowski

We theoretically investigate the features of Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interaction between two magnetic impurities, mediated by the interfacial bound states inside a domain wall (DW). The latter separates the two regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ganesh C. Paul , SK Firoz Islam , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

We investigate the Kondo effect of the Fermi arcs in a time-reversal-invariant Weyl semimetal with the variational method. To show the consequence brought out by the nontrivial spin texture, we calculate the spatial spin-spin correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Da Ma , Hua Chen , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

In this work we have investigated the effect of Rashba splitting on the RKKY interaction in TI thin film both at finite and zero chemical potential. We find that the spin susceptibility of Rashba materials including TI thin film is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Mahroo Shiranzaei , Fariborz Parhizgar , Hosein Cheraghchi

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 consider a 2-impurity Kondo system with spin-exchange coupling within the conduction band. Our numerical renormalization group calculations show that for strong intraband spin correlations the competition of these correlations with Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-04 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Johann Kroha

The nontrivial spin texture on the (001) surface of topological crystalline insulator SnTe hosts exotic scientific importance and spintronic applications. Here, we study the effects of weak Floquet optical driving on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-07 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Marin Bukov , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

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

We propose a realization of mechanically tunable Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction in a double quantum dot nanoelectromechanical device. The coupling between spins of two quantum dots suspended above a metallic plate is mediated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. V. Parafilo , M. N. Kiselev

We theoretically study the impacts of linear spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities in two kinds of three-dimensional noncentrosymmetric systems. It has been found that linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Shi-Xiong Wang , Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou

We derive a generalization of the RKKY interaction to semiconductors using perturbation theory on a non-degenerated two-impurity Anderson model. In metals the interaction is mediated by excitations of free carriers over the Fermi-energy. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Schwieger , W. Nolting

The existence of Weyl nodes in the momentum space is a hallmark of a Weyl semimetal (WSM). A WSM can be confirmed by observing its Fermi arcs with separated Weyl nodes. In this paper, we study the spin- orbit interaction of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Shizhen Chen , Chengquan Mi , Weijie Wu , Wenshuai Zhang , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

The effective tight-binding model with compensated ferrimagnetic inverse-Heusler lattice Ti$_{2}$MnAl, candidate material of magnetic Weyl semimetal, is proposed. The energy spectrum near the Fermi level, the configurations of the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tomonari Meguro , Akihiro Ozawa , Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Spin-orbit coupling is an important ingredient in many recently discovered phenomena such as the spin-Hall effect and topological insulators. Of particular interest is topological superconductivity, with its potential application in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-04-28 Jay D. Sau , Rajdeep Sensarma , Stephen Powell , I. B. Spielman , S. Das Sarma

We carried out a nested Schrieffer-Wolff transformation of an Anderson two-impurity Hamiltonian to study the spin-spin coupling between two dynamical quantum dots under the influence of rotating transverse magnetic field. As a result of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vahram L. Grigoryan , Jiang Xiao

We investigate theoretically the transport properties of two independent artificial Kondo impurities. They are coupled together via a tunable Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction. For strong enough antiferromagnetic RKKY…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascal Simon , Rosa Lopez , Yuval Oreg

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 study the two-impurity Kondo model (TIKM) in two dimensions with spin-orbit coupled conduction electrons. In the first part of the paper we analyze how spin-orbit interactions of Rashba as well as Dresselhaus type influence the Kondo and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-02 David F. Mross , Henrik Johannesson