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Title: 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:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1]
  1. 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 . "Competing magnetic states in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré materials". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.214403. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1833816.
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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.},
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journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 21,
volume = 104,
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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