Spontaneous symmetry breakings in two-dimensional kagome lattice
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 -filling where there is a quadratic band crossing at -point, in agreement with Ref. 1, the instabilities are infinitesimal and topological phases are dynamically generated. At -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