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Bloch-like oscillations in a one-dimensional lattice with long-range correlated disorder

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2016-08-16 v2

Abstract

We study the dynamics of an electron subjected to a uniform electric field within a tight-binding model with long-range-correlated diagonal disorder. The random distribution of site energies is assumed to have a power spectrum S(k)1/kαS(k) \sim 1/k^{\alpha} with α>0\alpha > 0. Moura and Lyra [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 81}, 3735 (1998)] predicted that this model supports a phase of delocalized states at the band center, separated from localized states by two mobility edges, provided α>2\alpha > 2. We find clear signatures of Bloch-like oscillations of an initial Gaussian wave packet between the two mobility edges and determine the bandwidth of extended states, in perfect agreement with the zero-field prediction.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309426,
  title  = {Bloch-like oscillations in a one-dimensional lattice with long-range correlated disorder},
  author = {F. Domínguez-Adame and V. A. Malyshev and F. A. B. F. de Moura and M. L. Lyra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309426},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures