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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten
DS 30: Transport: Graphene
(Joint session of DS, DY, HL, MA, O and TT, organized by TT)
DS 30.12: Talk
Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 12:45–13:00, H22
Edge State Structure of the ν = 0 quantum Hall State in monolayer Graphene — •Angelika Knothe1,2 and Thierry Jolicoeur2 — 1Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, 79104 Freiburg — 2Université Paris 11, CNRS, LPTMS, UMR 8626, Orsay 91405 France
Single-layer graphene at neutrality under a magnetic field is a many-body insulator whose phase structure is under intense scrutiny. When tilting the applied magnetic field, there is a phase transition towards a conducting state [1]. A plausible description is to start from a SU(4) spin-valley symmetric quantum Hall ferromagnet and add some lattice-scale anisotropies in valley space [2]. In the manifold of ground states captured by this approach, it has been proposed that graphene undergoes a transition between a canted antiferromagnetic state and a ferromagnetic state. While this picture is clear in the bulk of the system, it remains to understand the effect of this phase change on the current-carrying edge states that are formed a the physical boundaries of a real sample [3]. We use an extended Hartree-Fock approach to describe a finite-size system with a simple model for the edge and extract the one-body spectrum. We then describe the current-carrying edge textures.
[1] A. F. Young et al., Nature (London) 505, 528 (2014) [2] M. Kharitonov, Phys. Rev. B 85, 155439 (2012) [3] M. Kharitonov, Phys. Rev. B 86, 075450 (2012); G. Murthy et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 241410 (2014) and arXiv:1510.04255; A. Knothe and T. Jolicoeur, Phys. Rev. B 92, 165110 (2015)