... tensile stress in the x-direction, for example, will strain the lattice in the xy-planeand destroy the three-fold symmetry, thereby lifting the degeneracy of the energy minima. However, the four-fold ... LLCAccording to the deformation potential theory, the strain will shift the energy of all the states in a given bandextremum by the same amount, i.e., the valley moves along the energy scale ... perpendicular to the valley. For an applied E field parallel to the stress, the conductivity will increase (i.e., the resistivity decreases) relative to the unstressed state because of the increase in the...