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The Stone-Wales trefoil: a new topological defect in graphene
Abstract
Specific heat of graphite at high temperatures demonstrates significant deviation from the ``3R'' Dulong-Petite law. It can be explained by accumulation of defects with formation energy as low as 1.45 eV. Based on the density functional theory calculations, we propose a possible candidate of topological defects, whose energy is comparable to the growth activation energy.
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BibTeX
@misc{kondrin2026stonewales,
title = {{The Stone-Wales trefoil: a new topological defect in graphene}},
author = {M. V. Kondrin and Y. B. Lebed and V. V. Brazhkin},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.13410},
eprint = {2610.13410},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13410},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Stone-Wales trefoil: a new topological defect in graphene
AU - M. V. Kondrin
AU - Y. B. Lebed
AU - V. V. Brazhkin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.13410
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13410
AB - Specific heat of graphite at high temperatures demonstrates significant deviation from the ``3R'' Dulong-Petite law. It can be explained by accumulation of defects with formation energy as low as 1.45 eV. Based on the density functional theory calculations, we propose a possible candidate of topological defects, whose energy is comparable to the growth activation energy.
ER -