Broken-Symmetry States of Dirac Fermions in Graphene with A Partially Filled High Landau Level

We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3 Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors $\pm {\bf q^{*}}$. Finite-size scaling shows that the peak value grows with electron number and diverges in the thermodynamic limit, which suggests an instability toward a charge density wave. A symmetry broken stripe phase is formed at large system size limit, which is robust against purturbation from disorder scattering. Such a quantum phase is experimentally observable through transport measurements. Associated with the special wavefunctions of the Dirac LL, both stripe and bubble phases become possible candidates for the ground state of the Dirac fermions in graphene with lower filling factors in the N=3 LL.Comment: Contains are slightly changed. Journal reference and DOI are adde

Odd-Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene: Interaction and Disorder Effects

We study the competition between the long-range Coulomb interaction, disorder scattering, and lattice effects in the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in graphene. By direct transport calculations, both $\nu=1$ and $\nu=3$ IQHE states are revealed in the lowest two Dirac Landau levels. However, the critical disorder strength above which the $\nu=3$ IQHE is destroyed is much smaller than that for the $\nu=1$ IQHE, which may explain the absence of a $\nu=3$ plateau in recent experiments. While the excitation spectrum in the IQHE phase is gapless within numerical finite-size analysis, we do find and determine a mobility gap, which characterizes the energy scale of the stability of the IQHE. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the $\nu=1$ IQHE state is a Dirac valley and sublattice polarized Ising pseudospin ferromagnet, while the $\nu=3$ state is an $xy$ plane polarized pseudospin ferromagnet.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Spin Hall Effect and Spin Transfer in Disordered Rashba Model

Based on numerical study of the Rashba model, we show that the spin Hall conductance remains finite in the presence of disorder up to a characteristic length scale, beyond which it vanishes exponentially with the system size. We further perform a Laughlin's gauge experiment numerically and find that all energy levels cannot cross each other during an adiabatic insertion of the flux in accordance with the general level-repulsion rule. It results in zero spin transfer between two edges of the sample as each state always evolves back after the insertion of one flux quantum, in contrast to the quantum Hall effect. It implies that the topological spin Hall effect vanishes with the turn-on of disorder.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures final versio