Straintronics beyond homogeneous deformation
arXiv:1810.04775 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.125407
Abstract
We present a continuum theory of graphene treating on an equal footing both homogeneous Cauchy-Born (CB) deformation, as well as the microscopic degrees of freedom associated with the two sublattices. While our theory recovers all extant results from homogeneous continuum theory, the Dirac-Weyl equation is found to be augmented by new pseudo-gauge and chiral fields fundamentally different from those that result from homogeneous deformation. We elucidate three striking electronic consequences: (i) non-CB deformations allow for the transport of valley polarized charge over arbitrarily long distances e.g. along a designed ridge; (ii) the triaxial deformations required to generate an approximately uniform magnetic field are unnecessary with non-CB deformation; and finally (iii) the vanishing of the effects of a one dimensional corrugation seen in \emph{ab-initio} calculation upon lattice relaxation are explained as a compensation of CB and non-CB deformation.
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