• 文献标题:   Spin-Triplet Excitonic Insulator: The Case of Semihydrogenated Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JIANG ZY, LOU WK, LIU Y, LI YC, SONG HF, CHANG K, DUAN WH, ZHANG SB
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.166401
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

While various excitonic insulators have been studied in the literature, due to the perceived too-small spin splitting, spin-triplet excitonic insulator is rare. In two-dimensional systems such as a semihydrogenated graphene (known as graphone), however, it is possible, as revealed by first-principles calculations coupled with Bethe-Salpeter equation. The critical temperature, given by an effective Hamiltonian, is 11.5 K. While detecting excitonic insulators is still a daunting challenge, the condensation of triplet excitons will result in spin superfluidity, which can be directly measured by a transport experiment. Nonlocal dielectric screening also leads to an unexpected phenomenon, namely, an indirect-to-direct transition crossover between single-particle band and exciton dispersion in the semihydrogenated graphene, which offers yet another test by experiment.