Flat bands by latent symmetry

CV Morfonios, M Röntgen, M Pyzh, P Schmelcher - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Flat energy bands of model lattice Hamiltonians provide a key ingredient in designing
dispersionless wave excitations and have become a versatile platform to study various …

Spectral properties of two coupled Fibonacci chains

A Moustaj, M Röntgen, CV Morfonios… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The Fibonacci chain, ie a tight-binding model where couplings and/or on-site potentials can
take only two different values distributed according to the Fibonacci word, is a classical …

Real space theory for electron and phonon transport in aperiodic lattices via renormalization

V Sánchez, C Wang - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Structural defects are inherent in solids at a finite temperature, because they diminish free
energies by growing entropy. The arrangement of these defects may display long-range …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering bands of extended electronic states in a class of topologically disordered and quasiperiodic lattices

B Pal, A Chakrabarti - Physics Letters A, 2014 - Elsevier
We show that a discrete tight-binding model representing either a random or a quasiperiodic
array of bonds can have the entire energy spectrum or a substantial part of it absolutely …

Spin filter for arbitrary spins by substrate engineering

B Pal, RA Römer, A Chakrabarti - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We design spin filters for particles with potentially arbitrary spin $ S\left (= 1/2, 1,
3/2,\ldots\right) $ using a one-dimensional periodic chain of magnetic atoms as a quantum …

Spin filtering and switching action in a diamond network with magnetic-nonmagnetic atomic distribution

B Pal, P Dutta - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We propose a simple model quantum network consisting of diamond-shaped plaquettes
with deterministic distribution of magnetic and non-magnetic atoms in presence of a uniform …

Independent channel method for nanoribbons with dislocation and Fano defects

V Sánchez, F Sánchez, C Wang - physica status solidi (b), 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In 2D materials, the dislocation is a common structural defect at finite temperatures as its
appearance reduces the free energy by rising entropy, whereas many clusters of atoms or …

Quasiperiodic magnetic chain as a spin filter for arbitrary spin states

B Pal - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We show that a quasiperiodic magnetic chain comprising magnetic atomic sites sequenced
in a Fibonacci pattern can act as a prospective candidate for spin filters for particles with …