The phase diagram of a biased graphene bilayer is computed and the existence of a ferromagnetic phase is discussed both in the critical on-site interaction Uc versus doping density and versus temperature. We show that in the ferromagnetic phase the two planes have unequal magnetization and that the electronic density is hole like in one plane and electron like in the other. We give evidence for a \emph{first-order} phase transition between paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases induced by doping at zero temperature.
@article{arxiv.0807.3623,
title = {First order ferromagnetic phase transition in the low electronic density regime of a biased graphene bilayer},
author = {T. Stauber and Eduardo V. Castro and N. A. P. Silva and N. M. R. Peres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3623},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
19 pages, 7 figures; detailed presentation of the calculations done in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186803 (2008)