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Functional renormalization group and variational Monte Carlo studies of the electronic instabilities in graphene near 1/4 doping

Superconductivity 2015-05-30 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the electronic instabilities of near 1/4 electron doped graphene using the functional renormalization group (FRG) and variational Monte-Carlo method. A modified FRG implementation is utilized to improve the treatment of the von Hove singularity. At 1/4 doping the system is a chiral spin density wave state exhibiting the anomalous quantized Hall effect, or equivalently a Chern insulator. When the doping deviates from 1/4, the dx2y2+idxyd_{x^2-y^2}+i d_{xy} Cooper pairing becomes the leading instability. Our results suggest near 1/4 electron or hole doped graphene is a fertile playground for the search of Chern insulators and superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.1109.3884,
  title  = {Functional renormalization group and variational Monte Carlo studies of the electronic instabilities in graphene near 1/4 doping},
  author = {Wan-Sheng Wang and Yuan-Yuan Xiang and Qiang-Hua Wang and Fa Wang and Fan Yang and Dung-Hai Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3884},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 8 figures, with technical details, published version