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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

In order to study the interplay between Kondo and Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, we calculate the spin-spin correlation functions between two Kondo impurities coupled to different sites of a half-filled open Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-28 A. C. Tiegel , P. E. Dargel , K. A. Hallberg , H. Frahm , T. Pruschke

We demonstrate that quantum interference of electronic waves that are scattered by multiple magnetic impurities in an s-wave superconductor gives rise to novel bound states. We predict that by varying the inter-impurity distance or the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Dirk K. Morr , Nikolaos A. Stavropoulos

Motivated by the recent upsurge in research of three-dimensional topological semimetals (SMs), we theoretically study the RKKY interaction between magnetic impurities in node-line SMs with and without the chirality and obtain the analytical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-22 Zhong-Yi Wang , Da-Yong Liu , Liang-Jian Zou

We study the competition between the RKKY quadratic and biquadratic spin-spin interactions of two magnetic impurities in twisted bilayer graphene away from the magic angle. We apply the Bistritzer-MacDonald model of two graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 D. O. Oriekhov , T. T. Osterholt , R. A. Duine , V. P. Gusynin

Motivated by recent advances in the study of altermagnetism, or unconventional magnetism, and in the realization and manipulation of two-impurity Kondo physics in real materials, we propose a phase-sensitive method to explore unconventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Qiong Qin , Toshihiro Sato , Marcin Raczkowski , Jeroen van den Brink , Congjun Wu , Fakher F. Assaad

We study the RKKY interaction of magnetic impurities in the $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ model which hosts pseudospin-1 fermions with two dispersive and one flat bands. By using the effective low-energy Hamiltonian we calculate the RKKY coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 D. O. Oriekhov , V. P. Gusynin

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

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

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

We consider the effective coupling between impurity spins on surfaces of a thin-film Weyl semimetal within Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) theory. If the spins are on the same surface, their coupling reflects the anisotropy and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Sonu Verma , Debasmita Giri , H. A. Fertig , Arijit Kundu

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

A superconductor with interacting paramagnetic impurities is considered. The impurities are coupled via the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida interaction. At a temperature Tg, the system of magnetic impurities forms a spin-glass state. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor Galitski , A. I. Larkin

We study Rudermann-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene nanoribbons in the presence of spin orbit interactions and magnetic fields. For this we evaluate the static spin susceptibility tensor in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We consider RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities in graphene. The consideration is based on the perturbation theory for the thermodynamic potential in the imaginary time representation. We analyze the symmetry of the RKKY…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 E. Kogan

Motivated by proposals to employ RKKY-coupled spins as building blocks in a solid-state quantum computer, we analyze how the RKKY interaction in a 2D electron gas is influenced by spin-orbit interactions. Using a two-impurity Kondo model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-10 Henrik Johannesson , David F. Mross , Erik Eriksson

Magnetic impurities in real materials can mask the intrinsic spin-dependent properties of hosts. They interact indirectly through the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) mechanism, which limits the use of isolated impurity spins in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Pei-Hao Fu , James K. Freericks

It is generally believed that superconductivity only weakly affects the indirect exchange between magnetic impurities. If the distance r between impurities is smaller than than the superconducting coherence length (r < \xi), this exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Norman Y. Yao , Leonid I. Glazman , Eugene A. Demler , Mikhail D. Lukin , Jay D. Sau

We study the effects of intersite RKKY-like interactions in the mixed valence regime of a two-band extended Hubbard model. This model is known to display a metallic non-Fermi liquid state with spin-charge separation in the standard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Lleweilun Smith , Qimiao Si

We analyze the interactions between two Kondo Quantum Dots connected to a Rashba-active Quantum Wire. We find that the Kondo-doublet interaction, at an inter-dot distance of the order of the wire Fermi length, is over an order of magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Simonin