• 文献标题:   Realization of an Antiferromagnetic Superatomic Graphene: Dirac Mott Insulator and Circular Dichroism Hall Effect
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU YN, LIU F
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, antiferromagnetic, mott insulator, circular dichroism hall effect
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03579
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the electronic and topological properties of an antiferromagnetic (AFM) superatomic graphene lattice superimposed on a bipartite honeycomb lattice governed by Lieb's theorem of itinerant magnetism. It affords a concrete material realization of the AFM honeycomb model with a Dirac Mott insulating state, characterized by a gap opening at the Dirac point due to inversion symmetry breaking by long-range AFM order. The opposite Berry curvatures of the K and K' valleys induces a circular dichroism (CD) Hall effect. Different from the valley Hall effect that activates only one valley, the CD Hall effect activates carriers from both K and K' valleys, generating the opposite directions of transversal Hall currents for the left- and right-handed circularly polarized light, respectively.