Strain-induced Landau Levels in arbitrary dimensions with an exact spectrum

ORAL

Abstract

Certain non-uniform 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 pseudo-magnetic 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 $d$.

Authors

  • Stephan Rachel

    Techische Universitaet Dresden, TU Dresden

  • Ilja Goethel

    TU Dresden

  • Daniel P. Arovas

    UC San Diego

  • Matthias Vojta

    TU Dresden, Germany, TU Dresden