Energy bands in a three dimension simple cubic lattice of contact potential

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yi-Cai, Zhang, J. M.
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Zhang, J. M.
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Zhang, J. M.
contents In this work, we investigate energy bands in a three dimensional simple cubic lattice of contact potential. The energy bands in the first Brillouin Zone are obtained with Ewald's summation method. In comparison with single point potential, the presence of lattice potential changes the existence condition of negative energy states near zero energy. It is found that the system always has negative energy states for an arbitrarily weak periodic potential. In addition, we prove that if an irreducible unitary representation is not a trivial representation of group of wave vector, the corresponding wave functions at lattice sites would be zero. With this theorem, the degeneracy of energy bands is explained with group theory. Furthermore, we find that there exists some energy bands which are not affected by the lattice potential. We call their corresponding eigenstates as dark states. The physical mechanism of the dark states is explained by explicitly constructing the standing wave-type Bloch wave functions.
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spellingShingle Energy bands in a three dimension simple cubic lattice of contact potential
Zhang, Yi-Cai
Zhang, J. M.
Quantum Gases
Materials Science
Other Condensed Matter
In this work, we investigate energy bands in a three dimensional simple cubic lattice of contact potential. The energy bands in the first Brillouin Zone are obtained with Ewald's summation method. In comparison with single point potential, the presence of lattice potential changes the existence condition of negative energy states near zero energy. It is found that the system always has negative energy states for an arbitrarily weak periodic potential. In addition, we prove that if an irreducible unitary representation is not a trivial representation of group of wave vector, the corresponding wave functions at lattice sites would be zero. With this theorem, the degeneracy of energy bands is explained with group theory. Furthermore, we find that there exists some energy bands which are not affected by the lattice potential. We call their corresponding eigenstates as dark states. The physical mechanism of the dark states is explained by explicitly constructing the standing wave-type Bloch wave functions.
title Energy bands in a three dimension simple cubic lattice of contact potential
topic Quantum Gases
Materials Science
Other Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01145