Novel effects of strains in graphene and other two dimensional materials

B Amorim, A Cortijo, F De Juan, AG Grushin, F Guinea… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The analysis of the electronic properties of strained or lattice deformed graphene combines
ideas from classical condensed matter physics, soft matter, and geometrical aspects of …

k· p theory for two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

A Kormányos, G Burkard, M Gmitra, J Fabian… - 2D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We presentk p· Hamiltonians parametrized byab initiodensity functional theory calculations
to describe the dispersion of the valence and conduction bands at their extrema (theK, Q, Γ …

Electrically tunable band gap in silicene

ND Drummond, V Zolyomi, VI Fal'Ko - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2012 - APS
We report calculations of the electronic structure of silicene and the stability of its weakly
buckled honeycomb lattice in an external electric field oriented perpendicular to the …

Theory of strain in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides

H Rostami, R Roldán, E Cappelluti, R Asgari, F Guinea - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Strain engineering has emerged as a powerful tool to modify the optical and electronic
properties of two-dimensional crystals. Here we perform a systematic study of strained …

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in single-layer and bilayer graphene

WK Tse, Z Qiao, Y Yao, AH MacDonald, Q Niu - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The quantum anomalous Hall effect can occur in single-and few-layer graphene systems
that have both exchange fields and spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we present a study of …

Space dependent Fermi velocity in strained graphene

F de Juan, M Sturla, MAH Vozmediano - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We investigate some apparent discrepancies between two different models for curved
graphene: the one based on tight-binding and elasticity theory, and the covariant approach …

Existence of bulk chiral fermions and crystal symmetry

JL Manes - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
We consider the existence of bulk chiral fermions around points of symmetry in the Brillouin
zone of nonmagnetic three-dimensional (3D) crystals with negligible spin-orbit interactions …

Two-Dimensional Topological Insulator State and Topological<? format?> Phase Transition in Bilayer Graphene

Z Qiao, WK Tse, H Jiang, Y Yao, Q Niu - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We show that gated bilayer graphene hosts a strong topological insulator (TI) phase in the
presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. We find that gated bilayer graphene under …

Gauge fields from strain in graphene

F de Juan, JL Manes, MAH Vozmediano - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
We revise the tight-binding approach to strained or curved graphene in the presence of
external probes such as photoemission or scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. We …

General theory for longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport

HJ Zhao, L Tao, Y Fu, L Bellaiche, Y Ma - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport (NCT) in crystalline materials is a highly
nontrivial phenomenon, motivating the design of next generation two-terminal rectification …