Theory of the Magnetic-Field-Induced Insulator in Neutral Graphene

Abstract

Recent experiments have demonstrated that neutral graphene sheets have an insulating ground state in the presence of an external magnetic field. We report on a $\pi$-band tight-binding-model Hartree-Fock calculation which examines the competition between distinct candidate insulating ground states. We conclude that for graphene sheets on substrates the ground state is most likely a field-induced spin-density-wave, and that a charge density wave state is possible for suspended samples. Neither of these density-wave states support gapless edge excitations.

11 pages, 7 figures

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