Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-07-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
17 pages, 17 postscript figures
Scientific paper
The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer graphene in the Bernal stacking supports a variety of uniform broken-symmetry ground states in Landau level N=0 at integer filling factors $\nu \in [-3,4].$ When an electric potential difference (or bias) is applied between the layers at filling factors $\nu =-1,3$, the ground state evolves from an interlayer coherent state at small bias to a state with orbital coherence at higher bias where \textit{electric} dipoles associated with the orbital pseudospins order spontaneously in the plane of the layers. In this paper, we show that by further increasing the bias at these two filling factors, the two-dimensional electron gas goes first through a Skyrmion crystal state and then into an helical state where the pseudospins rotate in space. The pseudospin textures in both the Skyrmion and helical states are due to the presence of a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the effective pseudospin Hamiltonian when orbital coherence is present in the ground state. We study in detail the electronic structure of the helical and Skyrmion crystal states as well as their collective excitations and then compute their electromagnetic absorption.
Cote Raphael
Fouquet J. P.
Luo Wenchen
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