Temperature-induced spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking on the honeycomb lattice
arXiv:1504.08314 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.176402
Abstract
Phase transitions involving spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking are studied on the honeycomb lattice at finite hole-doping with next-nearest-neighbor repulsion. We derive an exact expression for the mean-field equation of state in closed form, valid at temperatures much less than the Fermi energy. Contrary to standard expectations, we find that thermally induced intraband particle-hole excitations can create and stabilize a uniform metallic phase with broken time-reversal symmetry as the temperature is "raised" in a region where the groundstate is a trivial metal.
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