Strictly localized states on the Socolar dodecagonal lattice

Date
2022-08-22
Editor(s)
Advisor
Supervisor
Co-Advisor
Co-Supervisor
Instructor
Source Title
Physical Review B
Print ISSN
2469-9950
Electronic ISSN
2469-9969
Publisher
American Physical Society
Volume
106
Issue
6
Pages
064207-1 - 064207-18
Language
English
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Series
Abstract

Socolar dodecagonal lattice is a quasicrystal closely related to the better-known Ammann-Beenker and Penrose lattices. The cut and project method generates this twelvefold rotationally symmetric lattice from the six-dimensional simple cubic lattice. We consider the vertex tight-binding model on this lattice and use the acceptance domains of the vertices in perpendicular space to count the frequency of strictly localized states. We numerically find that these states span fNum 7.61% of the Hilbert space. We give 18 independent localized state types and calculate their frequencies. These localized state types provide a lower bound of fLS = 10919−6304√3 2 0.075854, accounting for more than 99% of the zero-energy manifold. Numerical evidence points to larger localized state types with smaller frequencies, similar to the Ammann-Beenker lattice. On the other hand, we find sites forbidden by local connectivity to host localized states. Forbidden sites do not exist for the Ammann-Beenker lattice but are common in the Penrose lattice. We find a lower bound of fForbid 0.038955 for the frequency of forbidden sites. Finally, all the localized state types we find can be chosen to have constant density and alternating signs over their support, another feature shared with the Ammann-Beenker lattice.

Course
Other identifiers
Book Title
Keywords
Citation
Published Version (Please cite this version)