Interplay between sublattice and spin symmetry breaking in graphene

Details Interplay between sublattice and spin symmetry breaking in graphene Interplay between sublattice and spin symmetry breaking in graphene

2011-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/1112.6334v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

9 pages, 8 figures; Typos corrected and some bibliography items added

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We study the effect of sublattice symmetry breaking on the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of two dimensional graphene as well as zigzag terminated one and zero dimensional graphene nanostructures. The systems are described with the Hubbard model within the collinear mean field approximation. We prove that for the non-interacting bipartite lattice with unequal number of atoms in each sublattice midgap states still exist in the presence of a staggered on-site potential $\pm \Delta/2$. We compute the phase diagram of both 2D and 1D graphene with zigzag edges, at half-filling, defined by the normalized interaction strength $U/t$ and $\Delta/t$, where $t$ is the first neighbor hopping. In the case of 2D we find that the system is always insulating and, we find the $U_c(\Delta)$ curve above which the system goes antiferromagnetic. In 1D we find that the system undergoes a phase transition from non-magnetic insulator for $U

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