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arxiv: 1105.3937 · v1 · pith:LCJWNSNAnew · submitted 2011-05-19 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.other

Topological Fermi liquids from Coulomb interactions in the doped Honeycomb lattice

classification ❄️ cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.other
keywords brokenhallphasezeroanomalousconductivitycoulombfermi
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We get an anomalous Hall metallic state in the Honeycomb lattice with nearest neighbors only arising as a spontaneously broken symmetry state from a local nearest neighbor Coulomb interaction V . The key ingredient is to enlarge the unit cell to host six atoms that permits Kekul\'e distortions and supports self-consistent currents creating non trivial magnetic configurations with total zero flux. We find within a variational mean field approach a metallic phase with broken time reversal symmetry (T) very close in parameter space to a Pomeranchuk instability. Within the T broken region the predominant configuration is an anomalous Hall phase with non zero Hall conductivity, a realization of a topological Fermi liquid. A T broken phase with zero Hall conductivity is stable in a small region of the parameter space for lower values of V .

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