• 文献标题:   Exact diagonalization study of the tunable edge magnetism in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LUITZ DJ, ASSAAD FF, SCHMIDT MJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Wurzburg
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.83.195432
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

The tunable magnetism at graphene edges with lengths of up to 48 unit cells is analyzed by an exact diagonalization technique. For this we use a generalized interacting one-dimensional model which can be tuned continuously from a limit describing graphene zigzag edge states with a ferromagnetic phase, to a limit equivalent to a Hubbard chain, which does not allow ferromagnetism. This analysis sheds light onto the question why the edge states have a ferromagnetic ground state, while a usual one-dimensional metal does not. Essentially, we find that there are two important features of edge states: (a) Umklapp processes are completely forbidden for edge states, which allows a spin-polarized ground state; (b) the strong momentum dependence of the effective interaction vertex for edge states gives rise to a regime of partial spin-polarization and a second-order phase transition between a standard paramagnetic Luttinger liquid and ferromagnetic Luttinger liquid.