Strain-Induced Landau Levels in Arbitrary Dimensions with an Exact Spectrum

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Abstract

Certain nonuniform strain applied to graphene flakes has been shown to induce pseudo-Landau levels in the single-particle spectrum, which can be rationalized in terms of a pseudomagnetic field for electrons near the Dirac points. However, this Landau level structure is, in general, approximate and restricted to low energies. Here, we introduce a family of strained bipartite tight-binding models in arbitrary spatial dimension d and analytically prove that their entire spectrum consists of perfectly degenerate pseudo-Landau levels. This construction generalizes the case of triaxial strain on graphene's honeycomb lattice to arbitrary d; in d=3, our model corresponds to tetraxial strain on the diamond lattice. We discuss general aspects of pseudo-Landau levels in arbitrary d.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer266801
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang117
Ausgabenummer26
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 21 Dez. 2016
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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