Orbital mixing in few-layer graphene and non-Abelian Berry phase

In a magnetic field few-layer graphene supports, at the lowest Landau level, a multiplet of zero-mode levels nearly degenerate in orbitals as well as in spins and valleys. Those pseudo-zero-mode (PZM) levels are generally sensitive to interactions and external perturbations, and have a crossing amon...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-10
Main Author: Shizuya, K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bilayers
Graphene
Many body interactions
Perturbation
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Summary:In a magnetic field few-layer graphene supports, at the lowest Landau level, a multiplet of zero-mode levels nearly degenerate in orbitals as well as in spins and valleys. Those pseudo-zero-mode (PZM) levels are generally sensitive to interactions and external perturbations, and have a crossing among themselves or with other higher Landau levels when an external field is swept over a certain range. A close study is made of how such PZM levels evolve when they are gradually brought from empty to filled levels under many-body interactions. It is pointed out that the level spectra generally avoid a crossing via orbital level mixing and that orbital mixing is governed by a non-Abelian Berry phase that derives from an approximate degeneracy and interactions. A look is also taken into evolution/crossing of many-body ground states with increasing external bias in bilayer graphene.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2110.08056