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Exceptional Lattice Green's Functions

Mathematical Physics 2017-10-31 v1 Other Condensed Matter Combinatorics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

The three exceptional lattices, E6E_6, E7E_7, and E8E_8, have attracted much attention due to their anomalously dense and symmetric structures which are of critical importance in modern theoretical physics. Here, we study the electronic band structure of a single spinless quantum particle hopping between their nearest-neighbor lattice points in the tight-binding limit. Using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, we numerically sample their lattice Green's functions, densities of states, and random walk return probabilities. We find and tabulate a plethora of Van Hove singularities in the densities of states, including degenerate ones in E6E_6 and E7E_7. Finally, we use brute force enumeration to count the number of distinct closed walks of length up to eight, which gives the first eight moments of the densities of states.

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@article{arxiv.1710.10260,
  title  = {Exceptional Lattice Green's Functions},
  author = {Samuel Savitz and Marcus Bintz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10260},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, Submitting to Communications in Mathematical Physics, Comments welcome

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