Work function, deformation potential, and collapse of Landau levels in strained graphene and silicene
Davide Grassano, M. D’Alessandro, Olivia Pulci, S. G. Sharapov, V. P. Gusynin, A. A. Varlamov
Abstract
We perform a systematic ab initio study of the work function and its uniform strain dependence for graphene and silicene for both tensile and compressive strains. The Poisson ratios associated with armchair and zigzag strains are also computed. Based on these results, we obtain the deformation potential, crucial for straintronics, as a function of the applied strain. Further, we propose a particular experimental setup with a special strain configuration that generates only the electric field, while the pseudomagnetic field is absent. Then, applying a real magnetic field, one should be able to realize experimentally the spectacular phenomenon of the collapse of Landau levels in graphene or related two-dimensional materials.