• 文献标题:   Strain-induced one-dimensional Landau level quantization in corrugated graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MENG L, HE WY, ZHENG H, LIU MX, YAN H, YAN W, CHU ZD, BAI KK, DOU RF, ZHANG YF, LIU ZF, NIE JC, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   51
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.87.205405
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Theoretical research has predicted that a ripple of graphene generates an effective gauge field on its low-energy electronic structure and could lead to Landau quantization. Here, we demonstrate using a combination of an experimental method (scanning tunneling microscopy) and a theoretical approach (tight-binding approximation) that Landau levels will form when the effective pseudomagnetic flux per ripple Phi similar to (h(2)/la)Phi(0) is larger than the flux quantum Phi(0) (here, h is the height, l is the width of the ripple, and a is the nearest C-C bond length). The strain-induced gauge field in the ripple only results in one-dimensional (1D) Landau-level quantization along the ripple. Such 1D Landau quantization does not exist in two-dimensional systems in an external magnetic field. Its existence offers a unique opportunity to realize interesting electronic properties in strained graphene.