Electronic structure of periodic curved surfaces -- continuous surface versus graphitic sponge
Materials Science
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
We investigate the band structure of electrons bound on periodic curved surfaces. We have formulated Schr\"{o}dinger's equation with the Weierstrass representation when the surface is minimal, which is numerically solved. Bands and the Bloch wavefunctions are basically determined by the way in which the ``pipes'' are connected into a network, where the Bonnet(conformal)-transformed surfaces have related electronic strucutres. We then examine, as a realisation of periodic surfaces, the tight-binding model for atomic networks (``sponges''), where the low-energy spectrum coincides with those for continuous curved surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306729,
title = {Electronic structure of periodic curved surfaces -- continuous surface versus graphitic sponge},
author = {H. Aoki and M. Koshino and D. Takeda and H. Morise and K. Kuroki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306729},
year = {2009}
}
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