Disorder-tuned selection of order in bilayer graphene
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Zhang, Junhua
Nandkishore, Rahul Mahajan
Rossi, E.
Date Issued
May 2015
Journal
Physical Review B
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American Physical Society
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Zhang, Junhua, Rahul Nandkishore, and E. Rossi. “Disorder-Tuned Selection of Order in Bilayer Graphene.” Phys. Rev. B 91, no. 20 (May 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society
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Abstract
The nature of the interaction-driven spontaneously broken-symmetry state in charge-neutral bilayer graphene (BLG) has attracted a lot of interest. Theoretical studies predict various ordered states as the candidates for the ground state of BLG in the absence of external fields. Several experiments have been performed by different groups to identify the nature of the collective ground state in BLG. However, so far, there is no consensus: some experiments show evidence that suggests the establishment of a nematic gapless state, while others present results that are more consistent with the establishment of a fully gapped state. Moreover, even among the experiments that appear to see a bulk gap, some of the samples are found to be conducting (suggesting the existence of gapless edge states), while others are insulating. Here we explore the hypothesis that disorder might explain the discrepancy between experiments. We find that the pair-breaking effect due to nonmagnetic short-range disorder varies among the candidate ground states, giving rise to different amounts of suppression of their mean-field transition temperatures. Our results indicate that BLG can undergo a transition between different ordered states as a function of the disorder strength, providing a possible scenario to resolve the discrepancy between experimental observations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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