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How ubiquitous are dragon segments in quantum transmission?

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-03-02 v1

Abstract

Quantum dragon segments are nanodevices that have energy-independent total transmission of electrons. At the level of the single-band tight-binding model a nanodevice is viewed as a weighted undirected graph, with a vertex weight given by the on-site energy and the edge weight given by the tight-binding hopping parameter. A quantum dragon is a weighted undirected graph which when connected to idealized semi-infinite input and output leads, has the electron transmission probability T(E){\cal T}(E)==11 for all electron energies EE. The probability T(E){\cal T}(E) is obtained from the solution of the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. A graph must have finely tuned tight-binding parameters in order to have T(E){\cal T}(E)==11. This paper addresses classes of weighted graphs which can be tuned, by adjusting a small fraction of the total weights, to be a quantum dragon. We prove that with proper tuning any nanodevice can be a quantum dragon. Three prescriptions are presented to tune a weighted graph into a quantum dragon nanodevice. The implications of the prescriptions for physical nanodevices is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1502.07814,
  title  = {How ubiquitous are dragon segments in quantum transmission?},
  author = {M. A. Novotny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07814},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures