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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Topological heavy fermions in magnetic field

Abstract: The recently introduced topological heavy fermion model (THFM) provides a means for interpreting the low-energy electronic degrees of freedom of the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene as hybridization amidst highly dispersing topological conduction and weakly dispersing localized heavy fermions. In order to understand the Landau quantization of the ensuing electronic spectrum, a generalization of THFM to include the magnetic field B is desired, but currently missing. Here we provide a systematic derivation of the THFM in B and solve the resulting model to obtain the interacting Hofstadter spectra for single particle charged excitations. While naive minimal substitution within THFM fails to correctly account for the total number of magnetic subbands within the narrow band i.e. its total Chern number, our method -- based on projecting the light and heavy fermions onto the irreducible representations of the magnetic translation group -- reproduces the correct total Chern number. Analytical results presented here offer an intuitive understanding of the nature of the (strongly interacting) Hofstadter bands.
Comments: 16+65 pages, 5+21 figures for Version 2. The manuscript layout is restructured and the references are modified. The derivation of effective models is added to the supplementary notes
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Cite as: arXiv:2305.08171 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2305.08171v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Keshav Singh [view email]
[v1] Sun, 14 May 2023 14:44:49 GMT (25380kb)
[v2] Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:05:47 GMT (32255kb,D)

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