• 文献标题:   Distinguishing Spontaneous Quantum Hall States in Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG F, MACDONALD AH
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Penn
  • 被引频次:   49
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.186804
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene with N >= 2 is susceptible to a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which each spin-valley flavor spontaneously transfers charge between layers. In mean-field theory, one of the likely candidate ground states for a neutral bilayer is the layer antiferromagnet that has opposite spin polarizations in opposite layers. In this Letter, we analyze how the layer antiferromagnet and other competing states are influenced by Zeeman fields that couple to spin and by interlayer electric fields that couple to layer pseudospin, and comment on the possibility of using Zeeman responses and edge state signatures to identify the character of the bilayer ground state experimentally.