A numerical study of the rippling instability driven by electron-phonon coupling in graphene
arXiv:1911.10510 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.235428
Abstract
Suspended graphene exhibits ripples of size ranging from 50 to 100 Å and height 10Å, however, their origin remains undetermined. Previous theoretical works have proposed that rippling in graphene might be generated by the coupling between the bending modes and the density of electrons. These studies theoretically proposed that in the thermodynamic limit a membrane of single layer graphene displays a lattice instability for large enough electron-phonon coupling, undergoing a phase transition from a flat phase to a rippled one. In this work we solve the elasticity equations for a finite membrane of graphene coupled to the charge distribution, modeled in the tight-binding approximation, we find that the electron-phonon coupling controls a transition from a stable flat configuration to a stable rippled phase.
arXiv comment11 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.10536
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