Kinks and antikinks of buckled graphene: A testing ground for phi^4 field model
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2017-09-27 v1
Abstract
Kinks and antikinks of the classical phi^4 field model are topological solutions connecting its two distinct ground states. Here we establish an analogy between the excitations of a long graphene nanoribbon buckled in the transverse direction and phi^4 model results. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the dynamics of a buckled graphene nanoribbon with a single kink and with a kink-antikink pair. Several features of phi^4 model have been observed including the kink-antikink capture at low energies, kink-antikink reflection at high energies, and a bounce resonance. Our results pave the way towards the experimental observation of a rich variety of phi^4 model predictions based on graphene.
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@article{arxiv.1705.10684,
title = {Kinks and antikinks of buckled graphene: A testing ground for phi^4 field model},
author = {R. D. Yamaletdinov and V. A. Slipko and Y. V. Pershin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10684},
year = {2017}
}