Cartoon of graphene being stretched. The green arrow indicates the direction of the strong uniform pseudomagnetic field that could be generated via this process. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Programmable Extreme Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene by a Uniaxial Stretch
Shuze Zhu, Joseph A. Stroscio, and Teng Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245501 (2015)

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