The quadratic band crossing points (QBCPs) at Fermi level in two-dimension have been proposed to be unstable under electron-electron interaction. The possible interaction driven states include quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state and various nematic ordered states. In this work, motivated by the discovery of ferromagnetic van der Waals layered metal-organic framework CrCl2(pyrazine)2, we theoretically propose that the single layer of CrCl2(pyrazine)2 might realize one or some of these interaction driven states based on the QBCP protected by C4 symmetry. By introducing the short-range density-density type repulsion interactions into this system, we have found the phase diagram depending on different interaction range and strength. The exotic phases include the staggered chiral flux state manifesting QAH effect, the site-nematic insulator and the site-nematic Dirac semimetal state. The QAH state is robust against perturbations breaking the QBCP but it is weakened by increasing temperature. The metal-organic framework is tunable by changing the transition-metal elements, which might improve the gap size and stability of this interaction induced QAH state.
@article{arxiv.2208.00942,
title = {Interaction Driven Topological Phase Transition in Monolayer CrCl$_2$(pyrazine)$_2$},
author = {Xuecong Ji and Jiacheng Gao and Changming Yue and Zhijun Wang and Hua Wu and Xi Dai and Hongming Weng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.00942},
year = {2022}
}