The antiferromagnetic Chern insulator phase in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model
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| author | Wang, Bao-Qing Shao, Can Tohyama, Takami Luo, Hong-Gang Lu, Hantao |
| author_facet | Wang, Bao-Qing Shao, Can Tohyama, Takami Luo, Hong-Gang Lu, Hantao |
| contents | The emergence of the antiferromagnetic (AFM) Chern insulator (AFCI) phase in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard (KMH) model with a finite sublattice potential is investigated. The AFCI, characterized by AFM correlations coexisting with quantized Hall conductance, has long raised the question of whether it can exist in the KMH model that respects time-reversal symmetry (TRS). Using exact diagonalization, we analyze the excitation gap, anisotropic AFM correlations along the $z$ axis and in the $xy$ plane, and the fidelity susceptibility under twisted boundary conditions, all of which provide consistent evidence for the AFCI phase. In particular, our numerical evaluation on the (spin) Chern number reveals a breakdown of adiabatic continuity in the twist-angle space, indicating an instability toward TRS breaking driven by Hubbard-induced AFM perturbations. A modified computational scheme is further proposed, which yields a robust quantized Chern number $C=1$ within this phase. |
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| spellingShingle | The antiferromagnetic Chern insulator phase in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model Wang, Bao-Qing Shao, Can Tohyama, Takami Luo, Hong-Gang Lu, Hantao Strongly Correlated Electrons The emergence of the antiferromagnetic (AFM) Chern insulator (AFCI) phase in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard (KMH) model with a finite sublattice potential is investigated. The AFCI, characterized by AFM correlations coexisting with quantized Hall conductance, has long raised the question of whether it can exist in the KMH model that respects time-reversal symmetry (TRS). Using exact diagonalization, we analyze the excitation gap, anisotropic AFM correlations along the $z$ axis and in the $xy$ plane, and the fidelity susceptibility under twisted boundary conditions, all of which provide consistent evidence for the AFCI phase. In particular, our numerical evaluation on the (spin) Chern number reveals a breakdown of adiabatic continuity in the twist-angle space, indicating an instability toward TRS breaking driven by Hubbard-induced AFM perturbations. A modified computational scheme is further proposed, which yields a robust quantized Chern number $C=1$ within this phase. |
| title | The antiferromagnetic Chern insulator phase in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22329 |