Spontaneous quantum Hall effect via thermally induced quadratic Fermi point
arXiv:1204.5737 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.156801
Abstract
Gapless electronic systems containing topologically nontrivial Fermi points are sources of various topological insulators. Whereas most of these special band-crossing points are built in the electronic structure of the non-interacting lattice models, we show that a quadratic Fermi point characterized by a non-zero winding number emerges with a collinear triple-Q spin-density-wave state that arises from a perfectly nested but topologically trivial Fermi surface. We obtain a universal low-energy Hamiltonian for the quadratic Fermi point and show that such collinear orderings are unstable against the onset of scalar spin chirality that opens a gap and induces a spontaneous quantum Hall insulator as the temperature tends to zero.
5 pages, 4 figures + supplementary materials
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