• 文献标题:   Self-consistent screening approximation for flexible membranes: Application to graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZAKHARCHENKO KV, ROLDAN R, FASOLINO A, KATSNELSON MI
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Radboud Univ Nijmegen
  • 被引频次:   47
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.82.125435
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

Crystalline membranes at finite temperatures have an anomalous behavior of the bending rigidity that makes them more rigid in the long-wavelength limit. This issue is particularly relevant for applications of graphene in nanoelectromechanical and microelectromechanical systems. We calculate numerically the height-height correlation function G(q) of crystalline two-dimensional membranes, determining the renormalized bending rigidity, in the range of wave vectors q from 10(-7) angstrom(-1) till 10 angstrom(-1) in the self-consistent screening approximation (SCSA). For parameters appropriate to graphene, the calculated correlation function agrees reasonably with the results of atomistic Monte Carlo simulations for this material within the range of q from 10(-2) angstrom(-1) till 1 angstrom(-1). In the limit q -> 0 our data for the exponent eta of the renormalized bending rigidity kappa(R)(q)proportional to q(-eta) is compatible with the previously known analytical results for the SCSA eta similar or equal to 0.82. However, this limit appears to be reached only for q<10(-5) angstrom(-1) whereas at intermediate q the behavior of G(q) cannot be described by a single exponent.