Emerging Quantum Hall Effect in Massive Dirac Systems
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2017-02-07 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
An interaction-driven nonzero quantum Hall conductivity is shown to occur in time-reversal symmetric massive Dirac materials, in the absence of any external agent. The effect is produced through the dynamical breakdown of time-reversal symmetry, which is generated by quantum fluctuations, when the full dynamical electromagnetic interaction among the electrons is taken into account. The manifestation of this emergent parity anomaly should be observed in materials such as silicene, stanene, germanene and transition metal dichalcogenides, at low enough temperatures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1702.01573,
title = {Emerging Quantum Hall Effect in Massive Dirac Systems},
author = {Leandro O. Nascimento and E. C. Marino and Van Sérgio Alves and C. Morais Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.01573},
year = {2017}
}