Transport gap and hysteretic behavior of the Ising quantum Hall ferromagnets in |N| > 0 Landau levels of bilayer graphene

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作者
Luo, Wenchen [1 ]
Cote, R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sherbrooke, Dept Phys, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
EXCITATIONS; TRANSITIONS; INSTABILITY; SKYRMIONS; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.90.245410
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The chiral two-dimensional electron gas in Landau levels vertical bar N vertical bar > 0 of a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer has a valley-pseudospin Ising quantum Hall ferromagnetic behavior at odd filling factors nu(N) = 1,3 of these fourfold degenerate states. At zero interlayer electrical bias, the ground state at these fillings is spin polarized and electrons occupy one valley or the other while a finite electrical bias produces a series of valley pseudospin-flip transitions. In this work, we discuss the hysteretic behavior of the Ising quantum Hall ferromagnets. We compute the transport gap due to different excitations: bulk electron-hole pairs, electron-hole pairs confined to the coherent region of a valley-pseudospin domain wall, and spin or valley-pseudospin skyrmion-antiskyrmion pairs. We determine which of these excitations has the lowest energy at a given value of the Zeeman coupling, bias, and magnetic field.
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