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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2014.07.034MaRDI QIDQ469679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Biplab Pal, Arunava Chakrabarti

Publication date 11 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7277

zbMATH Keywords

ballistic transportdelocalizationsingle electron statestight binding model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: We show that a discrete tight-binding model representing either a random or a quasiperiodic array of bonds, can have the entire energy spectrum or a substantial part of it absolutely continuous, populated by extended eigenfunctions only, when atomic sites are coupled to the lattice locally, or non-locally from one side. The event can be fine-tuned by controlling only the host-adatom coupling in one case, while in two other cases cited here an additional external magnetic field is necessary. The delocalization of electronic states for the group of systems presented here is sensitive to a subtle correlation between the numerical values of the Hamiltonian parameters - a fact that is not common in the conventional cases of Anderson localization. Our results are analytically exact, and supported by numerical evaluation of the density of states and electronic transmission coefficient.

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