Transport properties of a class of deterministic one dimensional models with mobility edges

H. Cruz; S. Das Sarma

doi:doi:10.1051/jp1:1993197

Numéro		J. Phys. I France Volume 3, Numéro 7, July 1993


Page(s)		1515 - 1522
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1993197

DOI: 10.1051/jp1:1993197
J. Phys. I France 3 (1993) 1515-1522

Transport properties of a class of deterministic one dimensional models with mobility edges

H. Cruz and S. Das Sarma

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, U.S.A.

(Received 18 March 1993, accepted 26 March 1993)

Abstract
We calculate, using the Landauer formula, the dc resistance of a class of deterministic one dimensional models with slowly spatially varying potentials which have recently been shown to exhibit metal-insulator transitions. The mobility edge behavior of the model is directly confirmed using a tight-binding as well as a Krönig-Penny model. Effects of temperature and random disorder are included in our calculations. The state at the mobility edge is found to have the intermediate fractal character of critical states associated with singular continuous spectra.