Spontaneous Quantum Hall States in Chirally Stacked Few-Layer Graphene Systems

Fan Zhang, Jeil Jung, Gregory A. Fiete, Qian Niu, and Allan H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 156801 – Published 11 April 2011

Abstract

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene systems with N2 exhibit a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which charge density contributions from different spins and valleys are spontaneously transferred between layers. We explain how these states are distinguished by their charge, spin, and valley Hall conductivities, by their orbital magnetizations, and by their edge state properties. We argue that valley Hall states have [N/2] edge channels per spin valley.

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  • Received 19 October 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.156801

© 2011 American Physical Society

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Fan Zhang1,*, Jeil Jung1, Gregory A. Fiete1, Qian Niu1,2, and Allan H. MacDonald1

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
  • 2International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  • *zhangfan@physics.utexas.edu

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Vol. 106, Iss. 15 — 15 April 2011

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