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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

Two spatially separated magnetic impurities coupled to itinerant electrons give rise to a dynamically generated exchange (RKKY) inter-impurity interaction that competes with the individual Kondo screening of the impurities. It has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-04 Pol Alonso-Cuevillas Ferrer , Oleg M. Yevtushenko , Andreas Weichselbaum

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 investigate the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction arising from the hyperfine coupling between localized nuclear spins and conduction electrons in interacting $^{13}$C carbon nanotubes. Using the Luttinger liquid formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

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 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

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 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

We predict experimentally accessible signatures for helical Majorana fermions in a topological superconductor by coupling to two quantum dots in the local moment regime (corresponding to spin-$1/2$ impurities). Taking into account RKKY…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 E. Eriksson , A. Zazunov , P. Sodano , R. Egger

We theoretically study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in two-dimensional black phosphorus, phosphorene. The RKKY interaction enhances significantly for the low levels of hole doping owing to the nearly valence flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Moslem Zare , Fariborz Parhizgar , Reza Asgari

Two spins located at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator may interact with each other via indirect spin-exchange interaction mediated by the helical edge states, namely the RKKY interaction, which can be measured by the magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-19 Ru Zheng , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

We study the Ruderman-Kittle-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in a monolayer MoS$_2$. We show that the rotation of the itinerant electron spin due to the spin-orbit coupling causes a twisted interaction between two magnetic adatoms which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 F. Parhizgar , H. Rostami , Reza Asgari

We study theoretically the statistical properties of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between localized magnetic moments in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Daniel Loss

We propose versatile materials based on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in a zigzag silicene nanoribbon (ZSNR) on half filling in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. We show that the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Moslem Zare , Fariborz Parhizgar , Reza Asgari

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 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

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

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 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

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in p-doped transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$. We consider magnetic impurities hybridized to the Mo d-orbitals characteristic of the valence bands. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 D. Mastrogiuseppe , N. Sandler , S. Ulloa