Persistent current states in bilayer graphene
2015
We argue that at finite carrier density and large displacement fields, bilayer graphene is prone to $\ell =0$ and $\ell = 1$ Pomeranchuk Fermi surface instabilities. The broken symmetries are driven by non-local exchange interactions which favor momentum space condensation. We find that electron-electron interactions lead first to spontaneous valley polarization, which breaks time-reversal invariance and is associated with spontaneous orbital magnetism, and then under some circumstances to a nematic phase with reduced rotational symmetry. When present, nematic order is signaled by reduced symmetry in the dependence of optical absorption on light polarization.
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