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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 92, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.224435
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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 Weyl points separated in the momentum space. Using the Green's function method and a two-band model, we show that four terms contribute to the magnetic impurity interaction in the WSM phase: the Heisenberg, Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya, spin-frustrated, and Ising terms. Except for the last term which is vanishingly small in the plane perpendicular to the line connecting two Weyl points, all the other interaction terms are finite. Furthermore, the magnetic spins of the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya and spin-frustrated terms lie in the plane perpendicular to the line connecting two Weyl points, but in this plane, the magnetic spins of the Ising term have no components. For each contribution, an analytical expression is obtained, falling off with a spatial dependence as R-5 at Weyl points and showing beating behavior that depends on the direction between two magnetic impurities.
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