Wednesday, October 3, 2012

1210.0166 (Xin-Zhong Yan et al.)

Possible Broken Inversion and Time-Reversal Symmetry State of Electrons
in Bilayer Graphene
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Xin-Zhong Yan, C. S. Ting
With the two-band continuum model, we study the broken inversion and time-reversal symmetry state of electrons with finite-range repulsive interactions in bilayer graphene. With the analytical solution to the mean-field Hamiltonian, we obtain the electronic spectra. The ground state is gapped. In the presence of the magnetic field $B$, the energy gap grows with increasing $B$, in excellently agreement with the experimental observation. Such an energy gap behavior originates from the disappearance of a Landau level of $n$ = 0 and 1 states. The present result resolves explicitly the puzzle of the gap dependence of $B$.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0166

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