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Spontaneous symmetry breakings in two-dimensional kagome lattice

Materials Science 2010-08-10 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study spontaneous symmetry breakings for fermions (spinless and spinful) on a two-dimensional kagome lattice with nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions in weak coupling limit, and focus in particular on topological Mott insulator instability. It is found that at 13\frac{1}{3}-filling where there is a quadratic band crossing at Γ\Gamma-point, in agreement with Ref. 1, the instabilities are infinitesimal and topological phases are dynamically generated. At 23\frac{2}{3}-filling where there are two inequivalent Dirac points, the instabilities are finite, and no topological phase is favored at this filling without breaking the lattice translational symmetry. A ferromagnetic quantum anomalous Hall state with infinitesimal instability is further proposed at half-filling of the bottom flat band.

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@article{arxiv.1006.1707,
  title  = {Spontaneous symmetry breakings in two-dimensional kagome lattice},
  author = {Qin Liu and Hong Yao and Tianxing Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1707},
  year   = {2010}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, Published in Phys. Rev. B