Engineering flat electronic bands in quasiperiodic and fractal loop geometries

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2015.09.023zbMATH Open1349.82008arXiv1506.00386OpenAlexW1902314435MaRDI QIDQ341297FDOQ341297

Authors: Atanu Nandy, Arunava Chakrabarti 

Publication date: 16 November 2016

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

Abstract: Exact construction of one electron eigenstates with flat, non-dispersive bands, and localized over clusters of various sizes is reported for a class of quasi-one dimensional looped networks. Quasiperiodic Fibonacci and Berker fractal geometries are embedded in the arms of the loop threaded by a uniform magnetic flux. We work out an analytical scheme to unravel the localized single particle states pinned at various atomic sites or over clusters of them. The magnetic field is varied to control, in a subtle way, the extent of localization and the location of the flat band states in energy space. In addition to this we show that, an appropriate tuning of the field can lead to a re-entrant behavior of the effective mass of the electron in a band, with a periodic flip in its sign.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00386

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalizationmultifractalityflat bandquasiperiodicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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