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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

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 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

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

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

In this letter, we have studied the spin torque based magnetization oscillations and switching in presence of Rashba - Zeeman (RZ), Ruderman - Kittel - Kasuya - Yoside (RKKY) and Dzyaloshinskii - Moriya (DM) interactions in a double barrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Saumen Acharjee , Arindam Boruah , Reeta Devi , Nimisha Dutta

Of fundamental interest in the field of spintronics is the mechanism of indirect exchange coupling between magnetic impurities embedded in metallic hosts. A range of physical features, such as magnetotransport and overall magnetic moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Paul D. Gorman , John M. Duffy , Stephen R. Power , Mauro S. Ferreira

Carrier-mediated Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction plays an important role in itinerant magnetism. There have been intense interest on its general trend on bipartite lattice with particle-hole symmetry. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-25 Tsung-Cheng Lu , Hsiu-Hau Lin

We theoretically discuss the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). When each QD having a local spin is coupled to the conduction electrons in semiconductors, an indirect exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Tamura , K. Shiraishi , H. Takayanagi

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

Altermagnets are known in spintronics for their intrinsic spin-splitting and unconventional magnetic responses, particularly to magnetic impurities. However, effectively controlling the magnetic exchange interactions in altermagnets is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Ulrich Zülicke , Jamal Berakdar , Jacob Linder , 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 the physics of dilute magnetic impurities in a two-dimensional altermagnetic metal. For the single impurity case, although the spin degeneracy is broken in an altermagnetic metal, we show that the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Yu-Li Lee

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

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

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

We study RKKY interaction in non-Fermi liquid metals. We find that the RKKY interaction mediated by non-Fermi liquid metals can be of much longer range than for a Fermi liquid. The oscillatory nature of RKKY interaction thus becomes more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 Jian-Huang She , A. R. Bishop

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

The nontrivial spin texture on the (001) surface of topological crystalline insulator SnTe hosts exotic scientific importance and spintronic applications. Here, we study the effects of weak Floquet optical driving on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-07 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Marin Bukov , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

We theoretically demonstrate the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities that is mediated by the Weyl fermions embedded inside a three-dimensional Weyl semimetal (WSM). The WSM is characterized by a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Mehdi Askari