• 文献标题:   Anomalous Hooke's law in disordered graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GORNYI IV, KACHOROVSKII VY, MIRLIN AD
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, critical phenomena, elasticity, mechanical deformation, 2d membrane
  • 出版物名称:   2D MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   2053-1583
  • 通讯作者地址:   Karlsruhe Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1088/2053-1583/4/1/011003
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

The discovery of graphene, a single monolayer of graphite, has provided an experimental demonstration of stability of 2D crystals. Although thermal fluctuations of such crystals tend to destroy the long-range order in the system, the crystal can be stabilized by strong anharmonicity effects. This competition is the central issue of the crumpling transition, i. e., a transition between flat and crumpled phases. Weshow that anharmonicity-controlled fluctuations of a graphene membrane around equilibrium flat phase lead to unusual elastic properties. In particular, we demonstrate that stretching. of a flake of graphene is a nonlinear function of the applied tension at small tension: xi proportional to sigma(eta/(2-eta)) and xi proportional to sigma(eta/(8-eta)) for clean and strongly disordered graphene, respectively. Conventional linear Hooke's law, xi proportional to sigma , is realized at sufficiently large tensions: sigma >> sigma(*), where sigma(*) depends both on temperature and on the disorder strength.