Coexistence of Canted Antiferromagnetism and Bond-order in ν=0 Graphene

ORAL

Abstract

Motivated by experimental studies of graphene in the quantum Hall regime, we revisit the phase diagram of a single sheet of graphene at charge neutrality. Because of spin and valley degeneracies, interactions play a crucial role in determining the nature of the ground state. We show that, generically, in the regime of interest there is a region of coexistence between magnetic and bond orders in the phase diagram. We demonstrate this result both in continuum and lattice models and argue that the coexistence phase naturally provides an explanation for unreconciled experimental observations on the quantum Hall effect in graphene.

*The authors acknowledge support from NSF DMR-1611161, German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) Grant No. I-1505-303.10/2019, Minerva Foundation, Dean of Faculty and Israel planning and budgeting committee for financial support (AD), NSF DMR-2026947 (RKK), US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant no. 2016130 (GM) and the Aspen Center for Physics (NSF Grant PHY-1607611) (RKK, GM).

Presenters

  • Ganpathy N Murthy

    • University of Kentucky

Authors

  • Ankur Das

    • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Ribhu K Kaul

    • University of Kentucky
    • Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kentucky
  • Ganpathy N Murthy

    • University of Kentucky