Anomalous Exciton Condensation in Graphene Bilayers

Yafis Barlas, R. Côté, J. Lambert, and A. H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 096802 – Published 3 March 2010

Abstract

In ordinary semiconductor bilayers, exciton condensates appear at total Landau-level filling factor νT=1. We predict that similar states will occur in Bernal stacked graphene bilayers at many nonzero integer filling factors. For νT=3, 1 we find that the superfluid density of the exciton condensate vanishes and that a finite-temperature fluctuation-induced first order isotropic-smectic phase transition occurs when the layer densities are not balanced. These anomalous properties of bilayer graphene exciton condensates are due to the degeneracy of Landau levels with n=0 and n=1 orbital character.

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  • Received 8 September 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.096802

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yafis Barlas1, R. Côté2, J. Lambert2, and A. H. MacDonald3

  • 1National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
  • 2Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1
  • 3Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Vol. 104, Iss. 9 — 5 March 2010

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