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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

We show that the paradigmatic Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) description of two local magnetic moments coupled to propagating electrons breaks down in helical Luttinger Liquids when the electron interaction is stronger than some…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-10 Oleg M. Yevtushenko , Vladimir I. Yudson

Magnetic interactions between impurity spins play a crucial role in determining magnetic configurations in spintronic systems. Using a Green's function formalism, we investigate Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anirban Kundu

We present a study of the correlated transport regimes of a double quantum impurity system with mutual capacitive interactions. Such system can be implemented by a double quantum dot arrangement or by a quantum dot and nearby quantum point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , E. Vernek , Sergio E. Ulloa

When magnetic moments are immersed into the Fermi sea of itinerant electrons, rich quantum physics emerges. This is relevant for a wide range of materials including heavy Fermion systems, high temperature superconductors like the cuprates,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-07 Stefan Kettemann

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 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

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

We propose that real-space properties of the two-impurity Kondo model can be obtained from an effective spin model where two single-impurity Kondo spin chains are joined via an RKKY interaction between the two impurity spins. We then use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-10 Abolfazl Bayat , Sougato Bose , Pasquale Sodano , Henrik Johannesson

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

We study the two-impurity Kondo model (TIKM) in two dimensions with spin-orbit coupled conduction electrons. In the first part of the paper we analyze how spin-orbit interactions of Rashba as well as Dresselhaus type influence the Kondo and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-02 David F. Mross , Henrik Johannesson

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

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

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

Clusters of magnetic atoms lying on a metallic substrate can exhibit Kondo effect due to the exchange interaction with mobile electrons in the metal, which can be observed in STM measurements. The same interaction results in the induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-28 Philipp Knake , A. L. Chudnovskiy

We develop the theory of conductance of a quantum dot which carries a spin and is coupled via RKKY interaction to another spin-carrying quantum dot. The found dependence of the differential conductance on bias and magnetic field at fixed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Vavilov , L. I. Glazman

Placing a suitable spacer layer between two magnetic layers can lead to an interaction between the magnetic layers known as Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) coupling. Controlling RKKY coupling, particularly the ability to switch between…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Maria Ameziane , Roy Rosenkamp , Lukáš Flajšman , Sebastiaan van Dijken , Rhodri Mansell

The underscreened Kondo effect is studied within a model of two impurities S=1 interacting with the conduction band and via an interimpurity coupling $K\vec{S_1}.\vec{S_2}$. Using a mean-field treatment of the bosonized Hamiltonian, we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Karyn Le Hur , B. Coqblin

The competition between the indirect exchange interaction (IEC) of magnetic impurities in metals and the Kondo effect gives rise to a rich quantum phase diagram, the Doniach Diagram. In disordered metals, both the Kondo temperature and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Kyung-Yong Park , Iksu Jang , Ki-Seok Kim , S. Kettemann