NATURE OF ELECTRONIC STATES IN DISORDERED 1-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS
NATURE OF ELECTRONIC STATES IN DISORDERED 1-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS
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DOI:
10.1098/rspa.1963.0148
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
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BORLAND, RE
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BORLAND, RE
We consider an electron moving in the field of a one-dimensional infinite chain of identical potentials separated by regions of zero potential, the lengthssof these regions being distributed according to a probability density functionp(8). If we define the reduced phase of a real solution of the wave equation as the principal value of arctan ( —ψ'/kψ) and єias the reduced phase at the pointxiimmediately to the left of theith atomic potential, it is shown for all boundedp(s)and sufficiently high electron energies that theєiare distributed according to a probability density function which depends on the direction of integration from a specified homogeneous boundary condition. This result is shown to imply that the eigenfunctions for such systems are localized in the sense that the envelope of such a function decays on average in an exponential manner on either side of some region. An analytical calculation for a random chain of δ-functions gives the decay of the nodes explicitly for high energies, and numerical calculations of the decay for a liquid model are presented. Further support for the theory is provided by computer calculations of some of the eigenfunctions of a chain of 1000 randomly placed δ-functions.