Spontaneously broken chiral symmetry in the interacting Kane-Mele model
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| author | Zeng, Minghuan Zeng, Junjie Qin, Ling Feng, Shiping Xu, Donghui Wang, Rui |
| author_facet | Zeng, Minghuan Zeng, Junjie Qin, Ling Feng, Shiping Xu, Donghui Wang, Rui |
| contents | The essential properties of the half-filled interacting Kane-Mele model on a hexagon lattice is
studied using the slave rotor approach. It is shown clearly that a long-range charge-order state with
spontaneously broken chiral symmetry emerges in the weak and moderate interaction regimes, as
well as a presumed site-selected topological Mott insulator state in the stronger interaction regime
with U < UMott, where UMott is the critical interaction strength, and in the case of U > UMott,
the system is transited into the usual topological Mott state. This new charge-order state has
lower energy compared to the usual topological band insulator (TBI) state with chiral symmetry,
and thus is named as non-chiral TBI state. More specifically, in this non-chiral TBI state without
any long-range magnetic order, a long-range charge order with different electron occupation on
two sublattices appears in the absence of external sublattice field. The spontaneously broken chiral
symmetry gives rise to a special helical edge state, which has different spin accumulation on opposite
edges of the cylinder with periodic boundary condition in the zigzag direction, and thus leads to
a net spin current across the system. This net spin current would be further strengthened if the
nearest neighbor electron Coulomb interaction is taken into account as well, because it is favorable
for the long-range charge order with different electron occupation on sublattices. |
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| spellingShingle | Spontaneously broken chiral symmetry in the interacting Kane-Mele model Zeng, Minghuan Zeng, Junjie Qin, Ling Feng, Shiping Xu, Donghui Wang, Rui Strongly Correlated Electrons The essential properties of the half-filled interacting Kane-Mele model on a hexagon lattice is studied using the slave rotor approach. It is shown clearly that a long-range charge-order state with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry emerges in the weak and moderate interaction regimes, as well as a presumed site-selected topological Mott insulator state in the stronger interaction regime with U < UMott, where UMott is the critical interaction strength, and in the case of U > UMott, the system is transited into the usual topological Mott state. This new charge-order state has lower energy compared to the usual topological band insulator (TBI) state with chiral symmetry, and thus is named as non-chiral TBI state. More specifically, in this non-chiral TBI state without any long-range magnetic order, a long-range charge order with different electron occupation on two sublattices appears in the absence of external sublattice field. The spontaneously broken chiral symmetry gives rise to a special helical edge state, which has different spin accumulation on opposite edges of the cylinder with periodic boundary condition in the zigzag direction, and thus leads to a net spin current across the system. This net spin current would be further strengthened if the nearest neighbor electron Coulomb interaction is taken into account as well, because it is favorable for the long-range charge order with different electron occupation on sublattices. |
| title | Spontaneously broken chiral symmetry in the interacting Kane-Mele model |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08322 |