Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene II: General Mechanism and a Minimal Model
arxiv(2024)
摘要
We propose a minimal "three-patch model" for the anomalous Hall crystal
(AHC), a topological electronic state that spontaneously breaks both
time-reversal symmetry and continuous translation symmetry. The proposal for
this state is inspired by the recently observed integer and fractional quantum
Hall states in rhombohedral multilayer graphene at zero magnetic field. There,
interaction effects appear to amplify the effects of a weak moiré potential,
leading to the formation of stable, isolated Chern bands. It has been further
shown that Chern bands are stabilized in mean field calculations even without a
moiré potential, enabling a realization of the AHC state. Our model is built
upon the dissection of the Brillouin zone into patches centered around high
symmetry points. Within this model, the wavefunctions at high symmetry points
fully determine the topology and energetics of the state. We extract two
quantum geometrical phases of the non-interacting wavefunctions that control
the stability of the topologically nontrivial AHC state. The model predicts
that the AHC state wins over the topological trivial Wigner crystal in a wide
range of parameters, and agrees very well with the results of full
self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations of the rhombohedral multilayer
graphene Hamiltonian.
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