Chiral condensate with topological degeneracy in graphene and its manifestation in edge states

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The role of chiral symmetry in many-body states of graphene in strong magnetic fields is theoretically studied with the honeycomb lattice model. For a spin-split Landau level where the leading electron-electron interaction is the nearest-neighbor repulsion, a chiral condensate is shown to be, within the subspace of the n=0 Landau level, an exact many-body ground state having a finite gap, for which a calculation of the Chern number reveals that the ground state is a Hall insulator with a topological degeneracy of two. The topological nature of the ground state is shown to manifest itself as a Kekuléan bond order along armchair edges, while the pattern melts in the bulk due to quantum fluctuations. These can be regarded as a realization of the bulk-edge correspondence that is peculiar to a chiral-symmetric system. We have also obtained the ground state when point defects are introduced in the honeycomb lattice to reveal how the presence or absence of the chiral symmetry affects the defect states. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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Hamamoto, Y., Aoki, H., & Hatsugai, Y. (2012). Chiral condensate with topological degeneracy in graphene and its manifestation in edge states. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 86(20). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205424

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