• 文献标题:   Collective Excitations of Quantum Anomalous Hall Ferromagnets in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU FC, DAS SARMA S
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Maryland
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.046403
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

We present a microscopic theory for collective excitations of quantum anomalous Hall ferromagnets (QAHF) in twisted bilayer graphene. We calculate the spin magnon and valley magnon spectra by solving Bethe-Salpeter equations and verify the stability of QAHF. We extract the spin stiffness from the gapless spin wave dispersion and estimate the energy cost of a skyrmion-antiskyrmion pair, which is found to be comparable in energy with the Hartree-Fock gap. The valley wave mode is gapped, implying that the valley polarized state is more favorable compared to the valley coherent state. Using a nonlinear sigma model, we estimate the valley ordering temperature, which is considerably reduced from the mean-field transition temperature due to thermal excitations of valley waves.