Controlled trapping of single particle states on a periodic substrate by deterministic stubbing

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2019.125987zbMATH Open1482.82023arXiv1712.10185OpenAlexW2973771637MaRDI QIDQ2234007FDOQ2234007

Authors: Amrita Mukherjee, Atanu Nandy, Arunava Chakrabarti 

Publication date: 12 October 2021

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A periodic array of atomic sites, described within a tight binding formalism is shown to be capable of trapping electronic states as it grows in size and gets stubbed by an atom or an atomic clusters from a side in a deterministic way. We prescribe a method based on a real space renormalization group method, that unravels a subtle correlation between the positions of the side coupled atoms and the energy eigenvalues for which the incoming particle finally gets trapped. We discuss how, in such conditions, the periodic backbone gets transformed into an array of infinite quantum wells in the thermodynamic limit. We present a case here, where the wells have a hierarchically distribution of widths, hosing standing wave solutions in the thermodynamic limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10185

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zbMATH Keywords

localizationrenormalizationtrapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

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• Engineering bands of extended electronic states in a class of topologically disordered and quasiperiodic lattices
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