Optical resonant RKKY interaction in nanosystems

Abstract

Conduction electron spins interacting with magnetic impurity spins can lead to an indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in nonmagnetic metals or semiconductors, namely, RKKY interaction. In general, this RKKY coupling is too weak to apply on devices. In this paper, we find that when a laser field of appropriate frequency irradiates the nanosystems, it can greatly strengthen the RKKY interaction. This is the so-called optical resonant RKKY interaction. We give the resonant frequencies for different size samples, and calculate the exchange integrals for these samples on the near-resonant conditions. This optical resonant RKKY coupling may be strong enough to guarantee its application on spintronic devices.