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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 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

Light drives offer a potential tool for the dynamical control of magnetic interactions in matter. We theoretically investigate the indirect exchange coupling between two parallel chains of magnetic impurities on the surface of a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Modi Ke , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Wang-Kong Tse

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

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

The spin of a single atom adsorbed on a substrate is a promising building block for future spintronics and quantum computation schemes. To process spin information and also for increased magnetic stability, these building blocks have to be…

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 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

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 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 Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in various Kondo lattice systems. We argue that the weak Kondo-coupling expansion contains certain physics which is lost in the usual static approximation to the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Siqi Shao , Yang Ge , Yashar Komijani

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

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

Magnetically-doped graphene systems are potential candidates for application in future spintronic devices. A key step is to understand the pairwise interactions between magnetic impurities embedded in graphene that are mediated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Stephen R. Power , Mauro S. Ferreira

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

We study theoretically the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in one- and two-dimensions in presence of a Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. We show that rotation of the spin of conduction electrons due to SO coupling causes a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroshi Imamura , Patrick Bruno , Yasuhiro Utsumi

The ease with which the physical properties of graphene can be tuned suggests a wide range of possible applications. Recently, strain engineering of these properties has been of particular interest. Possible spintronic applications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 S. R. Power , P. D. Gorman , J. M. Duffy , M. S. Ferreira

Noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetals provide a platform for investigating the interplay among magnetism, inversion symmetry breaking, and topologically nontrivial Weyl fermions. The Weyl-mediated Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Mengyao Zhou , Hao-Ran Chang , Lijun Yang , Long Liang

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 consider Mn-doped bulk zinc-blende semiconductors described by the 4 $ \times$ 4 Luttinger Hamiltonian. In these semiconductors, Mn atom acts as an acceptor providing the system a mobile hole, and also acts like a magnetic impurity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu , Tarun Kanti Ghosh