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Flexural phonons in free-standing graphene

arXiv:0707.4350 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.076801

Abstract

Rotation and reflection symmetries impose that out-of-plane (flexural) phonons of free-standing graphene membranes have a quadratic dispersion at long wavelength and can be excited by charge carriers in pairs only. As a result, we find that flexural phonons dominate the phonon contribution to the resistivity below a crossover temperature T_x where we obtain an anomalous temperature dependence . The logarithmic factor arises from renormalizations of the flexural phonon dispersion due to coupling between bending and stretching degrees of freedom of the membrane.

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