Complete phase diagram of charge-neutral graphene in the Quantum Hall regime

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Abstract

Monolayer graphene at charge neutrality in a quantizing magnetic field is a quantum Hall ferromagnet. Due to the spin and valley (near) degeneracies, there is a plethora of possible ground states. Based on a stringent assumption on symmetry-allowed interactions, previous theoretical work predicts a phase diagram with distinct regions of spin-polarized, canted antiferromagnetic, inter-valley coherent, and charge density wave order. While early experiments suggested that the system was in the canted antiferromagnetic phase at a perpendicular field, recent scanning tunnelling studies universally find Kekule bond order, and sometimes also charge density wave order. Recently, it was found that if one relaxes the stringent assumption mentioned above, a phase with coexisting canted antiferromagnetic and Kekule order exists in the region of the phase diagram believed to correspond to real samples. In this work we present the complete phase diagram of ν=0 graphene in the Hartree-Fock approximation, using generic symmetry-allowed interactions, assuming translation invariant ground states up to an intervalley coherence. Allowing for a sublattice potential (valley Zeeman coupling) in accordance with spin Zeeman coupling, we find numerous phases with different types of coexisting order. We conclude with a discussion of the physical signatures of the various states.

*SJD acknowledge the funding from the INFOSYS grant. AD acknowledges the funding of GIF Grant I-1505-303.10/2019, DFG MI 658/10-2, DFG RO 2247/11-1, DFG EG 96/13-1, CRC 183 (project C01), Israel PBC, the Dean of Faculty fellowship (WIS), Koshland Foundation.

Presenters

  • Suman J De

    • Harish Chandra research Institute

Authors

  • Suman J De

    • Harish Chandra research Institute
  • Ankur Das

    • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Sumathi Rao

    • International Centre for Theoretical Studies (ICTS)
  • Ribhu Kaul

    • University of Kentucky
    • Pennsylvania State University
  • Ganpathy N Murthy

    • University of Kentucky