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TY - JOUR
T1 - Intra-Landau-level magnetoexcitons and the transition between quantum Hall states in undoped bilayer graphene
AU - Toke, Csaba
AU - Falko, Vladimir
N1 - ©2011 American Physical Society
PY - 2011/3/29
Y1 - 2011/3/29
N2 - We study the collective modes of the quantum Hall states in undoped bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Both for the well-known ferromagnetic state that is relevant for small electric field E-perpendicular to and the analogous layer polarized one suitable for large E-perpendicular to, the low-energy physics is dominated by magnetoexcitons with zero angular momentum that are even combinations of excitons that conserve Landau orbitals. We identify a long-wavelength instability in both states, and argue that there is an intermediate range of the electric field E-c((1)) < E-perpendicular to < E-c((s)) where a gapless phase interpolates between the incompressible quantum Hall states. The experimental relevance of this crossover via a gapless state is discussed.
AB - We study the collective modes of the quantum Hall states in undoped bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Both for the well-known ferromagnetic state that is relevant for small electric field E-perpendicular to and the analogous layer polarized one suitable for large E-perpendicular to, the low-energy physics is dominated by magnetoexcitons with zero angular momentum that are even combinations of excitons that conserve Landau orbitals. We identify a long-wavelength instability in both states, and argue that there is an intermediate range of the electric field E-c((1)) < E-perpendicular to < E-c((s)) where a gapless phase interpolates between the incompressible quantum Hall states. The experimental relevance of this crossover via a gapless state is discussed.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.115455
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.115455
M3 - Journal article
VL - 83
JO - Physical review B
JF - Physical review B
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 11
M1 - 115455
ER -