Strain-induced pseudomagnetic field in the Dirac semimetal borophene

2016/07/31 by A. D. Zabolotskiy, Yu. E. Lozovik · 5 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Band gap #Biology #Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research #Borophene #Condensed matter physics #Dirac (video compression format) #Dirac fermion #Fermion #Field (mathematics) #Geometry #Graphene #Graphene research and applications #MXene and MAX Phase Materials #Massless particle #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Scalar potential #Semimetal #Strain (injury) #Tensor (intrinsic definition) #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.94.165403

published as Phys. Rev. B 94, 165403 (2016) · 7 pages, 4 figures. v2: added references and extended the discussion

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Abstract

A tight-binding model of 8-Pmmn borophene, a two-dimensional boron crystal, is developed. We confirm that the crystal hosts massless Dirac fermions and the Dirac points are protected by symmetry. Strain is introduced into the model, and it is shown to induce a pseudomagnetic field vector potential and a scalar potential. The dependence of the potentials on the strain tensor is calculated. The physical effects controlled by the pseudomagnetic field are discussed.

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