Localization in an Almost Periodically Modulated Array of Potential Barriers
- 2 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (5) , 334-337
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.334
Abstract
It is argued that an array of potential barriers modulated in position and strength in a manner incommensurate with the barrier spacing can be replaced by a -function Kronig-Penny model. With this equivalence it is shown, with use of renormalization-group arguments as well as known results from other calculations, that this model possesses both localized and extended states separated by mobility edges.
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