• 文献标题:   Quantum Hall ferroelectric helix in bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JOLICOEUR T, TOKE C, SODEMANN I
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Paris Saclay
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.99.115139
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We reexamine the nature of the ground states of bilayer graphene at odd integer filling factors within a simplified model of nearly degenerate n = 0 and n = 1 Landau levels. Previous Hartree-Fock studies have found that ferroelectric states with orbital coherence can be stabilized by tuning the orbital splitting between these levels. These studies indicated that, in addition to a uniform ferroelectric state, a helical ferroelectric phase with spontaneously broken translational symmetry is possible. By performing exact diagonalization on the torus, we argue that the system does not have a uniform coherent state but instead transitions directly from the uniform incoherent state into the ferroelectric helical phase. We argue that there is a realistic prospect to stabilize the helical ferroelectric state in bilayer graphene by tuning the interlayer electric field in a model that includes all single-particle corrections to its zero energy eightfold multiplet of Landau levels.