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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 theoretically investigate the indirect signatures of the tilted anisotropic Dirac cones on Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interaction in a two dimensional polymorph of boron atoms. Unlike the case of isotropic non-tilted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ganesh C. Paul , SK Firoz Islam , Arijit Saha

We develop a theory for two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductor systems (e.g. $\textrm{Ga}_{1-x}\textrm{Mn}_{x}\textrm{As}$ layers) where the itinerant carriers mediating the ferromagnetic interaction between the impurity local…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Priour , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We obtain an analytical expression for the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction $J$ in electron or hole doped graphene for linear Dirac bands. The results agree very well with the numerical calculations for the full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 M. Sherafati , S. Satpathy

We show that there are diversified Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interactions between magnetic impurities, mediated by itinerant electrons, in a centrosymmetric crystal respecting a nonsymmorphic space group. We take the $P4/nmm$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Zhongyi Zhang , Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu , Fu-chun Zhang

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

In our previous work (E. Kogan, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 115119 (2011)) we calculated RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities in pristine graphene using the Green's functions (GF) in the coordinate -- imaginary time representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 E. Kogan

The RKKY interaction between substitutional Mn local moments in GaAs is both spin-direction-dependent and spatially anisotropic. In this Letter we address the strength of these anisotropies using a semi-phenomenological tight-binding model…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Timm , A. H. MacDonald

A discussion on the interaction between skyrmions in a bi-layer system connected by a non-magnetic metal is presented. From considering a free charge carrier model, we have shown that the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY ) inter- action…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 R. Cacilhas , S. Vojkovic , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , E. B. Carvalho , A. R. Pereira , D. Altbir , Á. S. Núñez

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

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 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

Silicene offers an ideal platform for exploring the phase transition due to strong spin-orbit interaction and its unique structure with strong tunability. With applied electric field and circularly polarized light, siliccene is predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Hou-Jian Duan , Shi-Han Zheng , Zhen-Long Sun , Mou Yang , Rui-Qiang Wang

We study RKKY interactions for magnetic impurities on graphene in situations where the electronic spectrum is in the form of Landau levels. Two such situations are considered: non-uniformly strained graphene, and graphene in a real magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Jinlyu Cao , H. A. Fertig , Shixiong Zhang

A new formalism to investigate RKKY interaction in aperiodic materials is presented. Particularly useful in the tight-binding scheme, it is used in this paper to probe the role of local environment and long range quasiperiodic potential on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Stephan Roche , Didier Mayou

The carrier-mediated RKKY interaction between local spins plays an important role for the application of magnetically doped graphene in spintronics and quantum computation. Previous studies largely concentrate on the influence of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Shu-Hui Zhang , Jia-Ji Zhu , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

We investigate theoretically the transport properties of two independent artificial Kondo impurities. They are coupled together via a tunable Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction. For strong enough antiferromagnetic RKKY…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascal Simon , Rosa Lopez , Yuval Oreg

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

The RKKY interaction between rare-earth (RE) ions in high-$T_c$ superconductors is considered at $T\ll T_c$. It is shown that this interaction consists of two terms: conventional oscillating one and the positive term, which is proportional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. N. Aristov , S. V. Maleyev , A. G. Yashenkin