RKKY Interaction in Disordered Graphene

Details RKKY Interaction in Disordered Graphene RKKY Interaction in Disordered Graphene

2011-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/1110.6272v1

Phys. Rev. B 85, 075420 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4+\epsilon\ pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075420

We investigate the effects of nonmagnetic disorder on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction in graphene by studying numerically the Anderson model with on-site and hopping disorder on a honeycomb lattice at half filling. We evaluate the strength of the interaction as a function of the distance R between two magnetic ions, as well as their lattice positions and orientations. In the clean limit, we find that the strength of the interaction decays as 1/R^3, with its sign and oscillation amplitude showing strong anisotropy. With increasing on-site disorder, the mean amplitude decreases exponentially at distances exceeding the elastic mean free path. At smaller distances, however, the oscillation amplitude increases strongly and its sign changes on the same sublattice for all directions but the armchair direction. For random hopping disorder, no sign change is observed. No significant changes to the geometrical average values of the RKKY interaction are found at small distances, while exponential suppression is observed at distances exceeding the localization length.

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