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We present all-electrical operation of a Fe$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$-based Curie switch at room temperature. More specifically, we study the current-induced thermally-driven transition from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic…

We have performed low-temperature transport measurements on a double quantum dot-quantum wire coupled device and demonstrated non-local control of the Kondo effect in one dot by manipulating the electronic spin states of the other. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sasaki , S. Kang , K. Kitagawa , M. Yamaguchi , S. Miyashita , T. Maruyama , H. Tamura , T. Akazaki , Y. Hirayama , H. Takayanagi

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction mediated by helical edge states in quantum spin hall system. The helical edge states induce an in-plane noncollinear exchange coupling between two local spins, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jinhua Gao , Weiqiang Chen , X. C. Xie , Fu-chun Zhang

Altermagnets, characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking without net magnetization and momentum-dependent spin-split bands, offer a promising platform for spintronics due to their anisotropic spin textures and potential for tunable…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Bui D. Hoi

Inspired by the recent discovery of metallic spin supersolidity and its giant magnetocaloric effect in the rare-earth alloy EuCo$_2$Al$_9$ [Nature 651, 61 (2026)], we perform a combined study through electronic structure analysis, effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-26 Ning Xi , Xitong Xu , Guoliang Wu , Mingfang Shu , Hao Chen , Yuan Gao , Zhentao Wang , Gang Su , Jie Ma , Zhe Qu , Xi Chen , Wei Li

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 show that the carrier-mediated exchange interaction, the so-called RKKY coupling, between two magnetic impurity moments in graphene is significantly modified in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Using the mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs) are promising for spintronics, leveraging strong spin-orbit coupling for efficient spin manipulation via electrical and optical methods, with potential applications in memory storage, quantum computing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Saeed Rahmanian Koshkaki , Jamal Berakdar , Marin Bukov , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Within this paper we show the importance of accurate implementations of the RKKY interactions for antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic layers with thicknesses exceeding the exchange length. In order to evaluate the performance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-05 Dieter Suess , Sabri Koraltan , Florian Slanovc , Florian Bruckner , Claas Abert

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

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction has been extensively explored in isotropic Dirac systems with linear dispersion, which typically follows an exponent decaying rate with the impurity distance $R$, i.e., $J\propto 1/R^d$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Hou-Jian Duan , Yan-Yan Yang , Shi-Han Zheng , Chang-Yong Zhu , Ming-Xun Deng , Ruiqiang Wang , Mou Yang

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

MN4-embedded graphene (MN4-G) layers, incorporating transition metal elements (M), represent a class of experimentally accessible two-dimensional materials with significant potential for stable nanoscale magnetization. In these systems,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-04 Mahnaz Rezaei , Jahanfar Abouie , Fariba Nazari

We investigate the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between two spins located at two quantum dots embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring. In such a system the RKKY interaction, which oscillates as a function of the distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Jan Martinek , Patrick Bruno , Hiroshi Imamura

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

We investigate the long-range behavior and size dependence of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in hexagonal and triangular graphene nanoflakes with zigzag and arm-chair edges. We employ the tight-binding model with exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ahmet Utku Canbolat , Ozgur Cakir

The indirect RKKY interaction in iron pnictide and chalcogenide metals is calculated for a simplified four bands Fermi surface (FS) model. We investigate the specific multi-band features and show that distinct length scales of the RKKY…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-26 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier , Ilya Eremin

The physical properties of two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) crystals depend sensitively on the interlayer coupling, which is intimately connected to the stacking arrangement and the interlayer spacing. For example, simply changing the…

Ultrafast manipulation of the magnetic state of matter bears great potential for future information technologies. While demagnetisation in ferromagnets is governed by dissipation of angular momentum, materials with multiple spin…

We measure transport through gold grain quantum dots fabricated using electromigration, with magnetic impurities in the leads. A Kondo interaction is observed between dot and leads, but the presence of magnetic impurities results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. B. Heersche , Z. de Groot , J. A. Folk , L. P. Kouwenhoven , H. S. J. van der Zant , A. A. Houck , J. Labaziewicz , I. L. Chuang