Mechanical graphene

We present a model of a mechanical system with a vibrational mode spectrum identical to the spectrum of electronic excitations in a tight-binding model of graphene. The model consists of point masses connected by elastic couplings, called ‘tri-bonds’, that implement certain three-body interactions,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joshua E S Socolar, Tom C Lubensky, Charles L Kane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa57bb