Please view the posters presented at the 18th Annual CityTech Faculty and Student Research Poster Session below. You can click on each poster to enlarge it and view the PDF version under the poster abstract.

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38. Strain Induced Quantum Hall Phenomena of Excitons in Graphene

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We predict quantum Hall phenomena for excitons such as the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall effects, and the state of composite fermions at v = 1/2 in a mono and double layer of gapped graphene under strain-induced gauge pseudomagnetic field. When electrons and holes are excited only in one valley of the honeycomb lattice of gapped graphene, the strain induced pseudomagnetic field acts on electrons and holes the same way. The latter leads to the formation of single pseudomagnetoexcitons (PMEs), whose properties are cardinally different from those of magnetoexcitons. Wave functions and the energy spectrum of direct and indirect PMEs in a mono and double layer of gapped graphene are obtained. The valley Hall flows of direct and indirect PMEs, similar to Hall currents of charged particles, can be excited in a mono or double layer of gapped graphene, respectively. The predicted quantum Hall phenomena for the PMEs are important, since they imply that the quantum Hall physics and valleytronics phenomena can be observed in the novel system of neutral bosons without magnetic field. View or download a PDF version of this poster.