• 文献标题:   Ferromagnetism in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   OLSEN R, VAN GELDEREN R, SMITH CM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Utrecht
  • 被引频次:   20
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.87.115414
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

In this article we study the ferromagnetic behavior of ABC-stacked trilayer graphene. This is done using a nearest-neighbor tight-binding model, in the presence of long-range Coulomb interactions. For a given electron-electron interaction g and doping level n, we determine whether the total energy is minimized for a paramagnetic or ferromagnetic configuration of our variational parameters. The g versus n phase diagram is first calculated for the unscreened case. We then include the effects of screening using a simplified expression for the fermion bubble diagram. We show that ferromagnetism in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene is more robust than in monolayer, in bilayer, and in ABA-stacked trilayer graphene. Although the screening reduces the ferromagnetic regime in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene, the critical doping level remains one order of magnitude larger than in unscreened bilayer graphene.