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Strong intervalley correlation induced a magnetic order transition in monolayer $\text{MoS}_{2}$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-12-22 v1

Abstract

In this work, we study a model for monolayer molybdenum disulfide with including the intravalley and intervalley electron-electron interaction. We solve the model at a self-consistent mean-field level and get three solutions L0L_{0}, L+L_{+} and LL_{-}. As for L0L_{0}, the spin polarizations are opposite at K\textbf{K} and K\textbf{K}^{\prime} valley and the total magnetization is zero. L±L_{\pm} describe two degenerate spin-polarized states, and the directions of polarization are opposite for the states of L+L_{+} and LL_{-}. Based on these results, the ground state can be deduced to be spin polarized in domains in which their particular states can be randomly described by L+L_{+} or LL_{-}. Therefore, a zero net magnetization is induced for zero external magnetic field B\mathbf{B}, but a global ferromagnetic ground state for a nonzero B\mathbf{B}. We estimate the size of domains as several nanometers. As the increase of the chemical potential, the ground state changes between L0L_{0} and L±L_{\pm}, indicating first order phase transitions at the borders, which is coincident with the observation of photoluminescence experiments in the absence of the external magnetic field [J. G. Roch et\it{et} al.\it{al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124{\bf 124}, 187602 (2020)].

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@article{arxiv.2112.08664,
  title  = {Strong intervalley correlation induced a magnetic order transition in monolayer $\text{MoS}_{2}$},
  author = {Peng Fan and Zhen-Gang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.08664},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures