Order from Disorder in Graphene Quantum Hall Ferromagnet

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2006-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611062v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 156801 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.156801

Valley-polarized quantum Hall states in graphene are described by a Heisenberg O(3) ferromagnet model, with the ordering type controlled by the strength and sign of valley anisotropy. A mechanism resulting from electron coupling to strain-induced gauge field, giving leading contribution to the anisotropy, is described in terms of an effective random magnetic field aligned with the ferromagnet z axis. We argue that such random field stabilizes the XY ferromagnet state, which is a coherent equal-weight mixture of the $K$ and $K'$ valley states. Other implications such as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless ordering transition and topological defects with half-integer charge are discussed.

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