Bias driven coherent carrier dynamics in a two-dimensional aperiodic potential

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.09.019zbMATH Open1225.82065arXiv0809.3362OpenAlexW2127831016MaRDI QIDQ644158FDOQ644158

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 2 November 2011

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

Abstract: We study the dynamics of an electron wave-packet in a two-dimensional square lattice with an aperiodic site potential in the presence of an external uniform electric field. The aperiodicity is described by $$ at lattice sites $(m_x,m_y)$, with $pialpha$ being a rational number, and $u_x$ and $u_y$ tunable parameters, controlling the aperiodicity. Using an exact diagonalization procedure and a finite-size scaling analysis, we show that in the weakly aperiodic regime ($u_x,u_y<1$), a phase of extended states emerges in the center of the band at zero field giving support to a macroscopic conductivity in the thermodynamic limit. Turning on the field gives rise to Bloch oscillations of the electron wave-packet. The spectral density of these oscillations may display a double peak structure signaling the spatial anisotropy of the potential landscape. The frequency of the oscillations can be understood using a semi-classical approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3362

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zbMATH Keywords

Bloch oscillationsaperiodic potentialcoherent electron dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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• Solid state physics.

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