• 文献标题:   Mechanical control over valley magnetotransport in strained graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MA N, ZHANG SL, LIU DQ
  • 作者关键词:   mechanical strain, valley, magnetoconductivity
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICS LETTERS A
  • ISSN:   0375-9601 EI 1873-2429
  • 通讯作者地址:   Taiyuan Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physleta.2016.03.039
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Recent experiments report that the graphene exhibits Landau levels (LLs) that form in the presence of a uniform strain pseudomagnetic field with magnitudes up to hundreds of tesla. We further reveal that the strain removes the valley degeneracy in LLs, and leads to a significant valley polarization with inversion symmetry broken. This accordingly gives rise to the well separated valley Hall plateaus and Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. These effects are absent in strainless graphene, and can be used to generate and detect valley polarization by mechanical means, forming the basis for the new paradigm "valleytronics" applications. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.