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A pseudo-magnetic field kink can be realized along a graphene nanoribbon using strain engineering. Electron transport along this kink is governed by snake states that are characterized by a single propagation direction. Those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 L. S. Cavalcante , A. Chaves , D. R. da Costa , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

Recent experiments showed that non-uniform strain can be produced by depositing graphene over pillars. We employed atomistic calculations to study the non-uniform strain and the induced pseudo-magnetic field up to 5000 Tesla in graphene on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Neek-Amal , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

The remarkable properties of graphene are inherent to its 2D honeycomb lattice structure. Its low dimensionality, which makes it possible to rearrange the atoms by applying an external force, offers the intriguing prospect of mechanically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Yuhang Jiang , Jinhai Mao , Junxi Duan , Xinyuan Lai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Gallium nitride nanowire and nanorod substrates with different morphology are prospective platforms allowing to control the local strain distribution in graphene films top of them, resulting in an induction of pseudomagnetic fields. Atomic…

Introducing quantum confinement has uncovered a rich set of interesting quantum phenomena and allows one to directly probe the physics of confined (quasi-)particles. In most experiments, however, electrostatic potential is the only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

Strain has been extensively employed to tailor graphene's properties and has emerged as a powerful tool for engineering gauge fields and exploring fundamental phenomena in artificial platforms like photonic graphene. Here we discover that,…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-26 Yongsheng Liang , Shiqi Xia , Daohong Song , Hrvoje Buljan , Zhigang Chen

We present a new first-order approach to strain-engineering of graphene's electronic structure where no continuous displacement field $\mathbf{u}(x,y)$ is required. The approach is valid for negligible curvature. The theory is directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan , Zhengfei Wang , Mihajlo Vanevic

The mechanical and electronic properties of a graphene membrane placed on top of a superlattice of nanopillars are investigated. We use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to access the deformation fields and the tight-binding approaches to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. P. Milovanovic , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

Strain engineering of graphene takes advantage of one of the most dramatic responses of Dirac electrons enabling their manipulation via strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields. Numerous theoretically proposed devices, such as resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Banerjee , V. -H. Nguyen , T. Granzier-Nakajima , L. Pabbi , A. Lherbier , A. R. Binion , J. -C. Charlier , M. Terrones , E. W. Hudson

We demonstrate with a fully quantum-mechanical approach that graphene can function as gate-controllable transistors for pumped spin currents, i.e., a stream of angular momentum induced by the precession of adjacent magnetizations, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 F. S. M. Guimarães , A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , M. S. Ferreira

We report on mesoscopic transport fingerprints in disordered graphene caused by strain-field induced pseudomagnetic Landau levels (pLLs). Efficient numerical real space calculations of the Kubo formula are performed for an ordered network…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Mikkel Settnes , Nicolas Leconte , Jose E. Barrios-Vargas , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephan Roche

There is a wide range of science and applications accessible via the strain engineering of quantum transport in 2D materials. We propose a realistic experimental platform for uniaxial strain engineering of ballistic charge transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 A. C. McRae , G. Wei , A. R. Champagne

Magnetic effects at optical frequencies are notoriously weak. This is evidenced by the fact that the magnetic permeability of nearly all materials is unity in the optical frequency range, and that magneto-optical devices (such as Faraday…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mikael C. Rechtsman , Julia M. Zeuner , Andreas Tünnermann , Stefan Nolte , Mordechai Segev , Alexander Szameit

We study the electronic properties of rippled freestanding graphene membranes under central load from a sharp tip. To that end, we develop a gauge field theory on a honeycomb lattice valid beyond the continuum theory. Based on the proper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 James V. Sloan , Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan , Zhengfei Wang , Cedric Horvath , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Spatially nonuniform strain is important for engineering the pseudomagnetic field and band structure of graphene. Despite the wide interest in strain engineering, there is still a lack of control on device-compatible strain patterns due to…

We show through both theoretical arguments and numerical calculations that graphene discerns an unconventional sequence of quantized Hall conductivity, when subject to both magnetic fields (B) and strain. The latter produces time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bitan Roy , Zi-Xiang Hu , Kun Yang

We investigate the effect of strain-induced gauge fields on statistical distribution of energy levels of triangular graphene nanoflakes with zigzag edges. In the absence of strain fields but in the presence of weak potential disorder such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Adam Rycerz

Atomically resolved imaging and spectroscopic characteristics of graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on copper are investigated by means of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS). For CVD-grown graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-27 N. -C. Yeh , M. L. Teague , S. Yeom , B. L. Standley , D. A. Boyd , M. W. Bockrath

We propose a quantum gate architecture that allows for the systematic control of the effective exchange interactions between magnetic impurities embedded in nano-scale graphene flakes connected by a gated bridge. The entanglement between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Phillip Weinberg , Adrian E. Feiguin