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We study a gapped graphene monolayer in a combination of uniform magnetic field and strain-induced uniform pseudomagnetic field. The presence of two fields completely removes the valley degeneracy. The resulting density of states shows a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 V. O. Shubnyi , S. G. Sharapov

We revisit the theory of the pseudo magnetic field as induced by strain in graphene using the tight-binding approach. A systematic expansion of the hopping parameter and the deformation of the lattice vectors is presented from which we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Ramezani Masir , D. Moldovan , F. M. Peeters

The experimental demonstration of pseudo-magnetic fields exceeding 300 T in graphene [2] nanobubbles represents considerable challenge for the present theory connecting the emergence of gauge fields due to strain in the underlying lattice.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-01 Victor Atanasov

The general covariance of the Dirac equation is exploited in order to explore the curvature effects appearing in the electronic properties of graphene. Two physical situations are then considered: the weak curvature regime, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Pavel Castro-Villarreal , R. Ruiz-Sánchez

Graphene is a powerful playground for studying a plethora of quantum phenomena. One of the remarkable properties of graphene arises when it is strained in particular geometries and the electrons behave as if they were under the influence of…

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a ferromagnetic/strained/normal graphene junctions with central region subjected to a magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, based on Dirac equation, is implemented to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We propose that the strain induced effective pseudo-magnetic field in graphene can also be explained by a curl movement of the Dirac points, if the Dirac points can be regarded as a slowly varying function of position. We also prove that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Hua-Tong Yang

In graphene, long-wavelength deformations that result in elastic shear strain couple to the low-energy Dirac electrons as pseudogauge fields. Using a scalable tight-binding model, we consider analogs to magnetotransport in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Christophe De Beule , Jia-Tong Shi , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter , Ming-Hao Liu

The Landau level spectrum of graphene superlattices is studied using a tight-binding approach. We consider non-interacting particles moving on a hexagonal lattice with an additional one-dimensional superlattice made up of periodic square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

We study the Haldane model under strain using a tight-binding approach, and compare the obtained results with the continuum-limit approximation. As in graphene, nonuniform strain leads to a time-reversal preserving pseudo-magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Yen-Hung Ho , Eduardo V. Castro , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Using an array of coupled microwave resonators arranged in a deformed honeycomb lattice, we experimentally observe the formation of pseudo-Landau levels in the whole crossover from vanishing to large pseudomagnetic field strength. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Matthieu Bellec , Charles Poli , Ulrich Kuhl , Fabrice Mortessagne , Henning Schomerus

The control over light propagation and localization in photonic crystals offers wide applications from sensing and on-chip routing to lasing and quantum light-matter interfaces. While in electronic crystals magnetic fields can be used to…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-07 René Barczyk , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

Spatially varying strained graphene can acquire interesting electronic properties because of the strain-induced valley-dependent gauge (pseudomagnetic) fields1,2. Here we report the realization of strained graphene regions located close to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-31 Jun-Fang Liu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Yu Zhou , Jia-Cai Nie , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Lin He

In inhomogeneously strained graphene, low-energy electrons experience a valley-antisymmetric pseudo-magnetic field which leads to the formation of localized states at the edge between the valence and conduction bands, understood in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 Diana A. Gradinar , Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Moir'e patterns in the pseudo-magnetic field and in the strain profile of graphene (GE) when put on top of a hexagonal lattice substrate are predicted from elasticity theory. %which are confirmed by atomistic simulations. The van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

In Weyl semimetals, there is an intriguing possibility of realizing a pseudo-magnetic field in presence of small strain due to certain special cases of static deformations. This pseudo-magnetic field can be large enough to form quantized…

We study the density of states in graphene at high magnetic field, when the physics is dominated by strong correlations between electrons. In particular we use the method of Haldane pseudopotentials to focus on almost empty or almost filled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lih-King Lim , M. O. Goerbig , Cristina Bena

Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Tony Low , F. Guinea

We present simple models to describe the in-plane and the out-of-plane lattice relaxation in twisted bilayer and symmetrically twisted trilayer graphene. Analytical results and series expansions show that for twist angles {\theta} > 1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Adrián Ceferino , Francisco Guinea

Lattice deformations in graphene couple to the low-energy electronic degrees of freedom as effective scalar and gauge fields. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the optical component of the displacement field, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Christophe De Beule , Robin Smeyers , Wilson Nieto Luna , E. J. Mele , Lucian Covaci