Motivated by recent experiments, here we identify the valley-coherent charge density wave (VC-CDW) in the nondegenerate quarter metal for the entire family of chirally stacked $n$ layer graphene, encompassing rhombohedral multilayer, Bernal bilayer, and monolayer cousins. Besides the hallmark broken translational symmetry, yielding a modulated charge density over an enlarged unit cell with a characteristic $2\mathbf{K}$ periodicity, where $\pm \mathbf{K}$ are the valley momenta, this phase lacks the threefold ($C_3$) rotational symmetry but only for $n=1$ and even integer $n$. The VC-CDW then represents a stripe order, as observed in hexalayer graphene [arXiv:2504.05129], but preserves the $C_3$ symmetry for other odd integer $n$ as observed in trilayer graphene [Nat. Phys. 20, 1413 (2024); arXiv:2411.11163]. From a universal Clifford algebraic argument, we show that the VC-CDW and an anomalous Hall order can lift the residual valley degeneracy of an antiferromagnetically ordered spin-polarized half metal, when these systems are subject to perpendicular displacement fields. Only the anomalous Hall order displays a hysteresis in off-diagonal resistivity, as observed in all the systems with $2\le n\le 6$. We showcase a confluence of VC-CDW and anomalous Hall orders within the quarter metal, generically displaying a regime of coexistence, otherwise separating the pure phases.

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• Charge density waves
• Phase transitions
• Stripes
• Graphene
• Hubbard model
• Lattice models in condensed matter
• Mean field theory