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Interaction-Driven Intervalley Coherence with Emergent Kekulé Orbitons

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02461v1
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 08:45:08 GMT
Title: Interaction-Driven Intervalley Coherence with Emergent Kekulé Orbitons
Authors: Hua Chen,
Abstract summary: The Dirac fermions with linear dispersion at $pm K$ valleys govern the non-interacting low-energy physics.<n>Surprisingly, the intermediate many-particle interaction produces the intervalley coherence between $pm K$ valleys.<n>Our findings provide insights for a direction of searching for Kekul'e distortion in correlated multi-orbital systems.
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Abstract: The $p$-orbital doublet in a honeycomb lattice is concretely studied with interacting spinless fermions at half filling. The Dirac fermions with linear dispersion at $\pm K$ valleys govern the non-interacting low-energy physics. In the weak-coupling regime, the Dirac fermions are gaped due to the spontaneous generation of mass terms through a uniform axial orbital ordering, rendering the system into the quantum anomalous Hall insulator phase with a nonzero Chern number. Surprisingly, the intermediate many-particle interaction produces the intervalley coherence between $\pm K$ valleys by developing complex polar orbital orderings in a tripled Wigner-Seitz cell. This phase is shown to have a deep connection with the low-energy physical behavior described by the orbital exchange model in the Mott insulating phase. The classical ground-state manifold in the Mott regime enjoys a continuous symmetry characterized by the intervalley coherent phase. Finally, the quantum fluctuation selects a unique ground state with emergent Kekul\'e orbitons through the order-by-disorder mechanism. Our findings provide insights for a direction of searching for Kekul\'e distortion in correlated multi-orbital systems.

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