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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

In this letter, we consider through simulation Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interactions between nanomagnets sitting on a conductive surface, and voltage-controlled gating thereof for low-energy switching of nanomagnets for possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Bahniman Ghosh , Rik Dey , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

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

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction mediates collinear magnetic interactions via the conduction electrons of a non-magnetic spacer, resulting in a ferro- or antiferromagnetic magnetization in magnetic multilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-05 Jing Qi , Paula M. Weber , Tilman Kißlinger , Lutz Hammer , M. Alexander Schneider , Matthias Bode

We study the RKKY interaction mediated by the helical edge states of a quantum spin Hall insulator in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbital coupling induced by an external electric field and the electron-electron interaction. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Yu-Wen Lee , Yu-Li Lee

In this letter, we demonstrate switching of nanomagnets through RKKY interactions in topological insulator-based magnetoelectric devices. The switching speed is dependent on the size of the ferromagnets.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Bahniman Ghosh , Urmimala Roy , Rik Dey , Tanmoy Pramanik , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

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

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 consider the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator with proximity induced superconductivity. A superconductor placed on the top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Alexander A. Zyuzin , Daniel Loss

Controlling magnetism and spin structures in strongly correlated systems by using electric field is of fundamental importance but challenging. Here, a high-spin ruthenate phase is achieved via a solid ionic chemical junction at…

We study the Kondo lattice model with the Heisenberg-type RKKY-exchange coupling among localized f-spins in the presence of a magnetic field. By means of an extended dynamical mean field theory combined with the non-crossing approximation,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga , Norio Kawakami

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

The oscillating magnetic interlayer coupling of Fe over spacer layers consisting of Cu$_{x}$Pd$_{1-x}$ alloys is investigated by first principles density functional theory. The amplitude, period and phase of the coupling, as well as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Erik Holmström , Anders Bergman , Lars Nordström , S. B. Dugdale , I. Abrikosov , B. L. Györffy

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

Diverse interlayer tunability of physical properties of two-dimensional layers mostly lies in the covalent-like quasi-bonding that is significant in electronic structures but rather weak for energetics. Such characteristics result in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-03 Peiheng Jiang , Cong Wang , Dachuan Chen , Zhicheng Zhong , Zhe Yuan , Zhong-Yi Lu , Wei Ji

This paper is an attempt to modify the classic Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) model to allow the analysis of the magnetic resonance measurements. In our calculations, we follow the treatment of the original authors of the RKKY model…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-07 A. Werpachowska , Z. Wilamowski

The two dimensionality plus the linear band structure of graphene leads to new behavior of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, which is the interaction between two magnetic moments mediated by the electrons of the host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-13 M. Sherafati , S. Satpathy

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

The bulk Rashba semiconductors BiTeX (X=I, Cl and Br) with intrinsically enhanced Rashba spin-orbit coupling provide a new platform for investigation of spintronic and magnetic phenomena in materials. We theoretically investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Wang-Kong Tse

The interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) of two local moment ferromagnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic spacer layer (M/N/M multilayer) is studied using the modified RKKY method along with the s-f model. The IEC exhibits oscillatory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Mathi Jaya , M. C. Valsakumar , W. Nolting