Spontaneous symmetry breakings in graphene subjected to in-plane magnetic field

Details Spontaneous symmetry breakings in graphene subjected to in-plane magnetic field Spontaneous symmetry breakings in graphene subjected to in-plane magnetic field

2007-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/0708.0394v1

Phys. Rev. B 76, 195415 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

28 pages, 20 figures; Supersedes arXiv:cond-mat/0611251

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.195415

Application of the magnetic field parallel to the plane of the graphene sheet leads to the formation of electron- and hole-like Fermi surfaces. Such situation is shown to be unstable with respect to the formation of an excitonic condensate even for an arbitrary weak magnetic field and interaction strength. At temperatures lower than the mean-field temperature the order parameter amplitude is formed. The order parameter itself is a U(2) matrix allowing for the combined rotations in the spin and valley spaces. These rotations smoothly interpolate between site and bond centered spin density waves and spin flux states. The trigonal warping, short range interactions, and the three particle Umklapp processes freeze some degrees of freedom at temperatures much smaller than the mean-field transition temperature and make either Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (driven either by vortices or half-vortices) or Ising type transitions possible. Strong logarithmic renormalization for the coupling constants of these terms by the Coulomb interaction are calculated within one-loop renormalization group. It is found that in the presence of the Coulomb interaction some short range interaction terms become much greater than one might expect from the naive dimensionality counting.

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