Electronic properties of a class of one-dimensional quasiperiodic systems

Electronic properties of a class of one-dimensional quasiperiodic systems are studied by the extended Kohmoto-Kadanoff-Tang (KKT) renormalization-group method. The employed models are tight-binding diagonal and off-diagonal models. It is showed that the energy spectra of the quasiperiodic systems are Cantor-like, namely the spectra are self-similar and the energy gaps are every-where dense on the realE-line.     

一维分子晶体中的极化子

本文从量子化的Holstein模型出发,运用相干态展开法和能量极小原理,通过实施连续近似得到了一维分子晶体模型处于基态的极化子满足的非线性薛定谔方程及其定态孤子解、基态能量、晶格位移,其结果与Holstein T[1].从半经典理论所得的结果完全一致,因此相干态展开方法在处理与极化子有关的其他物理问题中是一种非常有效的方法.     

The properties of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice's phonon spectrum

A numerical method with renormalization group transformation is used to study the scaling properties of phonon spectrum and its relevant state of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice which is constructed by reduced map. We find that the phonon spectrum at finite gaps' edges in the binary chain Fibonacci model is a Cantor-like set spectrum. The spectrum is singularly continuous and the state is a critical state.     

Statistical mechanics of a quasiperiodic one-dimensional magnetic chain

In this paper we study the thermodynamic properties of the Ising model on a linear chain in which the sites are generated according to the Fibonacci sequence. We calculate the partition function, the specific heat and the q-dependent magnetic susceptibility.     

Transmission gaps in one-dimensional Fibonacci quasiperiodic structure containing epsilon-negative materials

We investigate the transmission properties of one-dimensional Fibonacci quasiperiodic structure consisting of dispersive and lossless epsilon-negative (ENG) materials. It is found that for both TE and TM polarizations with normal and oblique incidences, there exist transmission gaps which are invariant with a change of scale and sensitive to incident angles. Analytical methods based on transfer matrices and effective medium theory have been used to explain the properties of transmission gaps.     

Irrational mode locking in quasiperiodic systems

A model for ac-driven systems, based on the Tang-Wiesenfeld-Bak-Coppersmith-Littlewood automaton for an elastic medium, exhibits mode-locked steps with frequencies that are irrational multiples of the drive frequency, when the pinning is spatially quasiperiodic. Detailed numerical evidence is presented for the large-system-size convergence of such a mode-locked step. The irrational mode locking is stable to small thermal noise and weak disorder. Continuous-time models with irrational mode locking and possible experimental realizations are discussed.     

Mobility edges and reentrant localization in one-dimensional dimerized non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattice

The mobility edges and reentrant localization transitions are studied in one-dimensional dimerized lattice with nonHermitian either uniform or staggered quasiperiodic potentials.We find that the non-Hermitian uniform quasiperiodic disorder can induce an intermediate phase where the extended states coexist with the localized ones,which implies that the system has mobility edges.The localization transition is accompanied by the PT symmetry breaking transition.While if the non-Hermitian quasiperiodic disorder is staggered,we demonstrate the existence of multiple intermediate phases and multiple reentrant localization transitions based on the finite size scaling analysis.Interestingly,some already localized states will become extended states and can also be localized again for certain non-Hermitian parameters.The reentrant localization transitions are associated with the intermediate phases hosting mobility edges.Besides,we also find that the non-Hermiticity can break the reentrant localization transition where only one intermediate phase survives.More detailed information about the mobility edges and reentrant localization transitions are presented by analyzing the eigenenergy spectrum,inverse participation ratio,and normalized participation ratio.     

Band gaps in the terahertz frequency range in quasiperiodic one-dimensional magnonic crystals

In this work we investigate magnonic band gaps, in the terahertz (THz) frequency range, in periodic and quasiperiodic (Fibonacci sequence) magnonic crystals formed by layers of Cobalt (Co) and Permalloy (Py). Our theoretical model is based on a magnetic Heisenberg Hamiltonian in the exchange regime, together with a transfer-matrix treatment within the random-phase approximation (RPA). For periodic arrangements the bulk band structure is analogous to those found in photonic crystals, while for quasiperiodic multilayers it presents additional pass bands similar to those found in doped electronic materials.     

Bound states in the continuum in quasiperiodic systems

We first propose the existence of bound states in the continuums (BICs) in quasiperiodic systems. Owing to long-range correlation, destructive interference may occur in quasiperiodic systems with higher generation order. Occurrences of BICs in Fibonacci quantum wells studied by localization analysis and gap map method are proposed.     

Quantum diffusion in semi-infinite periodic and quasiperiodic systems

This paper studies quantum diffusion in semi-infinite one-dimensional periodic lattice and quasiperiodic Fibonacci lattice. It finds that the quantum diffusion in the semi-infinite periodic lattice shows the same properties as that for the infinite periodic lattice. Different behaviour is found for the semi-infinite Fibonacci lattice. In this case, there are still C（t） - t^-δ and d（t） - t^β. However, it finds that 0 〈δ 〈 1 for smaller time, and δ = 0 for larger time due to the influence of surface localized states. Moreover, β for the semi-infinite Fibonacci lattice is much smaller than that for the infinite Fibonacci lattice. Effects of disorder on the quantum diffusion are also discussed.     

Generalized inverse participation numbers in metallic-mean quasiperiodic systems

From the quantum mechanical point of view, the electronic characteristics of quasicrystals are determined by the nature of their eigenstates. A practicable way to obtain information about the properties of these wave functions is studying the scaling behavior of the generalized inverse participation numbers Z_q ~ N - ^{D_q (q - 1)}Z_q \sim N - ^{D_q (q - 1)} with the system size N. In particular, we investigate d-dimensional quasiperiodic models based on different metallic-mean quasiperiodic sequences. We obtain the eigenstates of the one-dimensional metallic-mean chains by numerical calculations for a tight-binding model. Higher dimensional solutions of the associated generalized labyrinth tiling are then constructed by a product approach from the one-dimensional solutions. Numerical results suggest that the relation D _q ^dd = dD _q ^1d holds for these models. Using the product structure of the labyrinth tiling we prove that this relation is always satisfied for the silver-mean model and that the scaling exponents approach this relation for large system sizes also for the other metallic-mean systems.     

New cases of quasiperiodic motions in reversible systems

A theorem on the existence of invariant D-dimensional tori in reversible mappings near surfaces foliated into invariant tori of dimension d is announced, where d相似文献   

Almost mobility edges and the existence of critical regions in one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices

We study a one-dimensional quasiperiodic system described by the Aubry–André model in the small wave vector limit and demonstrate the existence of almost mobility edges and critical regions in the system. It is well known that the eigenstates of the Aubry–André model are either extended or localized depending on the strength of incommensurate potential V being less or bigger than a critical value V _c , and thus no mobility edge exists. However, it was shown in a recent work that for the system with V < V _c and the wave vector α of the incommensurate potential is small, there exist almost mobility edges at the energy E _c±, which separate the robustly delocalized states from “almost localized” states. We find that, besides E _c±, there exist additionally another energy edges E _c′±, at which abrupt change of inverse participation ratio (IPR) occurs. By using the IPR and carrying out multifractal analyses, we identify the existence of critical regions among |E _c±|?≤?|E|?≤?|E _c′±| with the mobility edges E _c± and E _c′± separating the critical region from the extended and localized regions, respectively. We also study the system with V > V _c , for which all eigenstates are localized states, but can be divided into extended, critical and localized states in their dual space by utilizing the self-duality property of the Aubry–André model.     

Arbitrarily slow decay of correlations in quasiperiodic systems

For diffusive motion in random media it is widely believed that the velocity autocorrelation functionc(t) exhibits power law decay as time;t. We demonstrate that the decay ofc(t) in quasiperiodic media can be arbitrarily slow within the class of integrable functions. For example, ind=1 with a potentialV(x)=cosx+coskx, there is a dense set of irrationalk's such that the decay ofc(k, t) is slower than 1/t ⁽¹⁺⁾ for any>0. The irrationals producing such a slow decay ofc(k, t) arevery well approximated by rationals.