TY - JOUR
T1 - Exotic electron states and tunable magneto-transport in a fractal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer
AU - Nandy, Atanu
AU - Pal, Biplab
AU - Chakrabarti, Arunava
N1 - Funding Information:
A.N. acknowledges a research fellowship from UGC , India, Grant No. 2121251089 , and B.P. is thankful to DST , India, for an INSPIRE fellowship through Grant No. IF 110078 . This work is partially supported by DST-PURSE program of University of Kalyani .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2014/8/28
Y1 - 2014/8/28
N2 - A Sierpinski gasket fractal network model is studied in respect of its electronic spectrum and magneto-transport when each 'arm' of the gasket is replaced by a diamond shaped Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, threaded by a uniform magnetic flux. Within the framework of a tight binding model for non-interacting, spinless electrons and a real space renormalization group method we unravel a class of extended and localized electronic states. In particular, we demonstrate the existence of extreme localization of electronic states at a special finite set of energy eigenvalues, and an infinite set of energy eigenvalues where the localization gets 'delayed' in space (staggered localization). These eigenstates exhibit a multitude of localization areas. The two terminal transmission coefficient and its dependence on the magnetic flux threading each basic Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is studied in details. Sharp switch on-switch off effects that can be tuned by controlling the flux from outside, are discussed. Our results are analytically exact.
AB - A Sierpinski gasket fractal network model is studied in respect of its electronic spectrum and magneto-transport when each 'arm' of the gasket is replaced by a diamond shaped Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, threaded by a uniform magnetic flux. Within the framework of a tight binding model for non-interacting, spinless electrons and a real space renormalization group method we unravel a class of extended and localized electronic states. In particular, we demonstrate the existence of extreme localization of electronic states at a special finite set of energy eigenvalues, and an infinite set of energy eigenvalues where the localization gets 'delayed' in space (staggered localization). These eigenstates exhibit a multitude of localization areas. The two terminal transmission coefficient and its dependence on the magnetic flux threading each basic Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is studied in details. Sharp switch on-switch off effects that can be tuned by controlling the flux from outside, are discussed. Our results are analytically exact.
KW - Aharonov-Bohm interferometer
KW - Magneto-transport
KW - Staggered localization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physleta.2014.09.012
DO - 10.1016/j.physleta.2014.09.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907284172
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 378
SP - 3144
EP - 3150
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
IS - 42
ER -