Theory Department
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
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Imamura, H. and Bruno, P., Utsumi, Y.

Twisted exchange interaction between localized spins in presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling
AIP Conference Proceedings "Physics of Semiconductors" 772, pp 1409-1410 (Eds.) Menéndez, J. and Van de Walle, C. G.,(2005)
We theoretically study the RKKY interaction between localized spins embedded in a 1D- or 2DEG with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that rotation of spin of conduction electrons due to the Rashba spin-orbit coupling causes a twisted RKKY interaction between localized spins which consist of three different terms: Heisenberg, Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya, and Ising interactions. We also study the spin-configuration of linear- and ring-shaped artificial molecules consisting of localized spins coupled via the twisted RKKY interaction. We find that the square-norm of the total spin of an artificial molecule oscillates with the twist angle θ and has maxima at θ = an odd integer times π. The square-norm of the total spin of the ring-shaped artificial molecules change drastically at certain values of θ where the lowest two energy levels cross each other.

TH-2005-28