https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023303003
Multi-orbital physics of edge-magnetism in a Hubbard model of transition-metal dichalcogenide nanoribbons: Comparing Mean Field Theory and Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo
Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e Porto, Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Facul-dade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
* Corresponding author: francisco.brito@fc.up.pt
** Corresponding author: evcastro@fc.up.pt
*** Corresponding author: jlopes@fc.up.pt
Published online: 16 April 2020
We study the emergence of edge-magnetism in zigzag nanoribbons from electron-electron interactions in a minimal 3-band tight-binding descrip¬tion of transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers with an intra-orbital Hub¬bard term. We explain the influence of each orbital in the magnetic ordering, comparing the results of Mean Field Theory and determinant Quantum Monte Carlo. We focus on a gapped edge-antiferromagnetic phase appearing at three-quarter edge-filling for realistic values of the interaction.
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