Magnetic ordering tendencies in hexagonal boron nitride-bilayer graphene moiré structures
arXiv:2105.14290 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.085147
Abstract
When hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphene are aligned at zero or small twist angle, a moiré structure is formed due to the small lattice constant mismatch between the two structures. In this work, we analyze magnetic ordering tendencies, driven by onsite Coulomb interactions, of encapsulated bilayer graphene (BG) forming a moiré structure with one (hBN-BG) or both hBN layers (hBN-BG-hBN), using the random phase approximation. The calculations are performed in a fully atomistic Hubbard model that takes into account all -electrons of the carbon atoms in one moiré unit cell. We analyze the charge neutral case and find that the dominant magnetic ordering instability is uniformly antiferromagnetic. Furthermore, at low temperatures, the critical Hubbard interaction required to induce magnetic order is slightly larger in those systems where the moiré structure has caused a band gap opening in the non-interacting picture, although the difference is less than 6%. Mean-field calculations are employed to estimate how such an interaction-induced magnetic order may change the observable single-particle gap sizes.
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