Metal-insulator transition in an aperiodic ladder network: An exact result

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Sil, Shreekantha ^a   Maiti, Santanu K ^b   Chakrabarti, Arunava ^c  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NARASINHA DUTT COLLEGE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; ELECTRIC FILTERS; LADDER NETWORKS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

ATOMIC SITES; ELECTRON HOPPING; FERMI ENERGY; GENERAL MODEL; NUMERICA L RESULTS; SPECIFIC VALUES; TIGHT-BINDING; TWO-TERMINAL CONDUCTANCE;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 49749133453     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.076803     Document Type: Article

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