Competing magnetic states in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré materials
Abstract
Small-twist-angle transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers develop isolated flat moiré bands that are approximately described by triangular lattice generalized Hubbard models. In this paper we explore the metallic and insulating states that appear under different control conditions at a density of one electron per moiré period and the transitions between them. By combining fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock theory calculations with strong-coupling expansions around the atomic limit, we identify four different magnetic states and one nonmagnetic state near the model phase diagram’s metal-insulator phase transition line. Here, ferromagnetic insulating states, stabilized by nonlocal direct exchange interactions, are surprisingly prominent.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1833816
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019481
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Moiré materials; Magnetic orderMagnetic phase transitions; Phase diagrams; Magnetic semiconductors; Mott insulators; Noncollinear magnets; Transition-metal dichalcogenide; Hartree-Fock methods; Heisenberg model; Hubbard model
Citation Formats
Hu, Nai Chao, and MacDonald, Allan H. Competing magnetic states in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré materials. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.104.214403.
Hu, Nai Chao, & MacDonald, Allan H. Competing magnetic states in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré materials. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.214403
Hu, Nai Chao, and MacDonald, Allan H. Fri .
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author = {Hu, Nai Chao and MacDonald, Allan H.},
abstractNote = {Small-twist-angle transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers develop isolated flat moiré bands that are approximately described by triangular lattice generalized Hubbard models. In this paper we explore the metallic and insulating states that appear under different control conditions at a density of one electron per moiré period and the transitions between them. By combining fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock theory calculations with strong-coupling expansions around the atomic limit, we identify four different magnetic states and one nonmagnetic state near the model phase diagram’s metal-insulator phase transition line. Here, ferromagnetic insulating states, stabilized by nonlocal direct exchange interactions, are surprisingly prominent.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.104.214403},
journal = {Physical Review B},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Fri Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2021}
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