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The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

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

The electronic implications of strain in graphene can be captured at low energies by means of pseudovector potentials which can give rise to pseudomagnetic fields. These strain-induced vector potentials arise from the local perturbation to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Alexander L. Kitt , Vitor M. Pereira , Anna K. Swan , Bennett B. Goldberg

Both topological crystalline insulators surfaces and graphene host multi-valley massless Dirac fermions which are not pinned to a high-symmetry point of the Brillouin zone. Strain couples to the low-energy electrons as a time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-18 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

We propose a hexagonal optical lattice system with spatial variations in the hopping matrix elements. Just like in the valley Hall effect in strained Graphene, for atoms near the Dirac points the variations in the hopping matrix elements…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-18 Binbin Tian , Manuel Endres , David Pekker

The structural and electronic properties of graphene leads its charge carriers to behave like relativistic particles, which is described by a Dirac-like Hamiltonian. Since graphene is a monolayer of carbon atoms, the strain due to elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang

We obtain the wave function of field emission from graphene in magnetic field. The emission image reveals structure of the Landau levels and depends on the phase difference between two sub-lattices. The emission pattern is sensitive to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jingkun Chen , Zhibing Li , Weiliang Wang

Strain-induced deformations in graphene are predicted to give rise to large pseudomagnetic fields. We examine theoretically the case of gas-inflated bubbles to determine whether signatures of such fields are present in the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Jun Lin , Dirch H. Petersen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We investigate electric and magnetic properties of graphene with rotationally symmetric strain. The strain generates large pseudo magnetic field with alternating sign in space, which forms a strongly confined quantum dot connected to six…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kyung-Joong Kim , Yaroslav Blanter , Kang-Hun Ahn

Strain-inducing deformations in graphene alter charge distributions and provide a new method to design specific features in the band structure and transport properties. Novel approaches implement engineered substrates to induce specifically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Md Tareq Mahmud , Nancy Sandler

Under the application of a force, a material will deform and, hence, the crystal lattice will experience strain. This induced strain will alter the electronic properties of the material. In particular, strain in graphene generates an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-08 J. A. Crosse

In the presence of strong magnetic fields the electronic bandstructure of graphene drastically changes. The Dirac cone collapses into discrete non-equidistant Landau levels, which can be externally tuned by changing the magnetic field. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Samuel Brem , Florian Wendler , Ermin Malic

In this paper, we investigate the two competing effects of strains and magnetic fields in single-layer graphene to explore its impact on various phenomena of quantum field theory, such as induced charge density, magnetic catalysis, symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 J. A. Sánchez-Monroy , C. J. Quimbay

Kondo physics in doped monolayer graphene is predicted to exhibit unusual features due to the linear vanishing of the pristine material's density of states at the Dirac point. Despite several attempts, conclusive experimental observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Dawei Zhai , Kevin Ingersent , Sergio E. Ulloa , Nancy Sandler

The gap equation for Dirac quasiparticles in monolayer graphene in constant magnetic and pseudomagnetic fields, where the latter is due to strain, is studied in a low-energy effective model with contact interactions. Analyzing solutions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 D. O. Rybalka , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

The strain induced pseudo-magnetic field in supported graphene deposited on top of a nanostructured substrate is investigated by using atomistic simulations. Step, elongated trench, one dimensional barrier, spherical bubbles, Gaussian bump…

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

We experimentally observe photonic Landau levels that arise due to a strain-induced pseudomagnetic field in a silicon photonic crystal slab. The Landau levels are dispersive (i.e., they are not flat bands) due to the distortion of the unit…

As a canonical response to the applied magnetic field, the electronic states of a metal are fundamentally reorganized into Landau levels. In Dirac metals, Landau levels can be expected without magnetic fields, provided that an inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Zheng Shi , Hai-Zhou Lu , Tianyu Liu

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

Very recently, the standard description of electrons in strained graphene has been completed by the explicit inclusion of the lattice deformation. Here, the effect of these lattice corrections is taken into account to find the mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis