Magnetic properties of 2D topological insulators
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2017-03-22 v1
Abstract
The effects of Hubbard-type on-site interactions on the BHZ model is studied in this paper for model parameters appropriate for the HgTe/CdTe quantum well. Within a simple mean field theory we search for plausible magnetic instabilities in the model and find that the ground state becomes {\em ferromagnetic} when the interaction strength between electrons in hole orbital is strong enough. The result can be understood by an approximate mapping of the Hubbard-BHZ model to the one band Hubbard model. The same mapping suggests that the magnetic and/or other ordered phases are more likely to occur in large gap topological insulators whose occupations are close to 1/2 for both electron and hole orbital.
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@article{arxiv.1703.07086,
title = {Magnetic properties of 2D topological insulators},
author = {Zewei Chen and Tai Kai Ng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07086},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, 5 figures