Electronic nematicity (IMAGE)

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

Electronic nematicity

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Examples of a compatible mode, left, and an incompatible mode. Elasticity enhances compatible modes, endowing a crystal with nematic order, whereas incompatible modes are suppressed because they cost too much elastic energy. In terms of the helical basis modes, the compatible mode here is a Φ2 mode, and the suppressed mode is a Φ1 mode. Image credit: W.J. Meese, Illinois Physics

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Image credit: W.J. Meese, Illinois Physics

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