A cosmological model for corrugated graphene sheets

dc.creatorCortijo, Alberto
dc.creatorVozmediano, María A. H.
dc.date2006-12-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:21:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:21:28Z
dc.descriptionDefects play a key role in the electronic structure of graphene layers flat or curved. Topological defects in which an hexagon is replaced by an n-sided polygon generate long range interactions that make them different from vacancies or other potential defects. In this work we review previous models for topological defects in graphene. A formalism is proposed to study the electronic and transport properties of graphene sheets with corrugations as the one recently synthesized. The formalism is based on coupling the Dirac equation that models the low energy electronic excitations of clean flat graphene samples to a curved space. A cosmic string analogy allows to treat an arbitrary number of topological defects located at arbitrary positions on the graphene plane. The usual defects that will always be present in any graphene sample as pentagon-heptagon pairs and Stone-Wales defects are studied as an example. The local density of states around the defects acquires characteristic modulations that could be observed in scanning tunnel and transmission electron microscopy.
dc.descriptionProceedings of the Graphene Conference, MPI PKS Dresden, September 2006
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612623
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612623
dc.identifierEur.Phys.J.ST148:83-89,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1140/epjst/e2007-00228-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/194271
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.titleA cosmological model for corrugated graphene sheets
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