Possible strain-induced directional superconductivity in graphene

Details Possible strain-induced directional superconductivity in graphene Possible strain-induced directional superconductivity in graphene

2011-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/1108.2931v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 pages; 4 figures

Scientific paper

Applying large strain in zigzag direction, gapless graphene may turns into gapped graphene at the critical strain. The energy gap between valence and conduction bands is created above the critical deformation. We theoretically predict that, using the Landauer formalism to study conductance in ballistic limit, the strain dependence of ballistic conductance, related to tight-binding-based carriers, evolves into a tremendously large conductance at the critical strain, found only for the conductance of current along armchair direction. This directional superconductance may lead graphene to resemble a superconductor. The strain-induced energy gap plays the role of the superconducting gap. This behavior is due to the fact that strain-induced change of electronic properties leads to highly anisotropic fermions to cause this tremendously large conductance.

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