Abstract
With the two-band continuum model, we study the broken inversion and time-reversal symmetry state of electrons with finite-range repulsive interactions in bilayer graphene. In the state, there are overlapped loop currents in each layer. With the analytical solution to the mean-field Hamiltonian, we obtain the electronic spectra. The ground state is gapped. In the presence of the magnetic field , the energy gap grows with increasing , in excellent agreement with the experimental observation. Such an energy-gap behavior originates from the disappearance of a Landau level of and 1 states. The present result resolves explicitly the puzzle of the gap dependence of .
- Received 27 September 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.235126
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