• 文献标题:   Randomness-induced XY ordering in a graphene quantum Hall ferromagnet
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ABANIN DA, LEE PA, LEVITOV LS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   65
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.156801
  • 出版年:   2007

▎ 摘  要

Valley-polarized quantum Hall states in graphene are described by a Heisenberg O(3) ferromagnet model, with the ordering type controlled by the strength and the sign of the valley anisotropy. A mechanism resulting from electron coupling to the strain-induced gauge field, giving a leading contribution to the anisotropy, is described in terms of an effective random magnetic field aligned with the ferromagnet z axis. We argue that such a random field stabilizes the XY ferromagnet state, which is a coherent equal-weight mixture of the K and K-1 valley states. The implications such as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless ordering transition and topological defects with half-integer charge are discussed.