Electron transmission in a one-dimensional quasicrystal
- 15 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 34 (12) , 8331-8334
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.8331
Abstract
The resistance of a one-dimensional quasicrystal has been calculated at zero temperature by using the Landauer formula. Our result shows that two kinds of electron-energy regions exist. One corresponds to localized states with the resistance exponentially increasing with sample length and the other one corresponds to extended states or resonant tunneling states with finite resistance R. The localization length (k) has also been computed as a function of k, and it shows a self-similar structure for local regions of electron energy.
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