Sublattice structure and topology in spontaneously crystallized electronic states

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العنوان: Sublattice structure and topology in spontaneously crystallized electronic states
المؤلفون: Zeng, Yongxin, Guerci, Daniele, Crépel, Valentin, Millis, Andrew J., Cano, Jennifer
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236601 (2024)
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
الوصف: The prediction and realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect are often intimately connected to honeycomb lattices in which the sublattice degree of freedom plays a central role in the nontrivial topology. Two-dimensional Wigner crystals, on the other hand, form triangular lattices without sublattice degrees of freedom, resulting in a topologically trivial state. In this Letter, we discuss the possibility of spontaneously formed honeycomb-lattice crystals that exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Starting from a single-band system with nontrivial quantum geometry, we derive the mean-field energy functional of a class of crystal states and express it as a model of sublattice pseudospins in momentum space. We find that nontrivial quantum geometry leads to extra terms in the pseudospin model that break an effective `time-reversal symmetry' and favor a topologically nontrivial pseudospin texture. When the effects of these extra terms dominate over the ferromagnetic exchange coupling between pseudospins, the anomalous Hall crystal state becomes energetically favorable over the trivial Wigner crystal state.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.236601
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17867
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2402.17867
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.236601