The effect of hyperuniform disorder on band gaps
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| author | Karcher, Jonas F. Gopalakrishnan, Sarang Rechtsman, Mikael C. |
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| contents | The properties of semiconductors, insulators, and photonic crystals are defined by their electronic or photonic bands, and the gaps between them. When the material is disordered, Lifshitz tails appear: these are localized states that bifurcate from the band edge and act to effectively close the band gap. While Lifshitz tails are well understood when the disorder is spatially uncorrelated, there has been recent interest in the case of hyperuniform disorder, i.e., when the disorder fluctuations are highly correlated and approach zero at long length scales. In this paper, we analytically solve the Lifshitz tail problem for hyperuniform systems using a path integral and instanton approach. We find the functional form of the density-of-states as a function of the energy difference from the band edge. We also examine the effect of hyperuniform disorder on the density of states of Weyl semimetals, which do not have a band gap. |
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| spellingShingle | The effect of hyperuniform disorder on band gaps Karcher, Jonas F. Gopalakrishnan, Sarang Rechtsman, Mikael C. Disordered Systems and Neural Networks The properties of semiconductors, insulators, and photonic crystals are defined by their electronic or photonic bands, and the gaps between them. When the material is disordered, Lifshitz tails appear: these are localized states that bifurcate from the band edge and act to effectively close the band gap. While Lifshitz tails are well understood when the disorder is spatially uncorrelated, there has been recent interest in the case of hyperuniform disorder, i.e., when the disorder fluctuations are highly correlated and approach zero at long length scales. In this paper, we analytically solve the Lifshitz tail problem for hyperuniform systems using a path integral and instanton approach. We find the functional form of the density-of-states as a function of the energy difference from the band edge. We also examine the effect of hyperuniform disorder on the density of states of Weyl semimetals, which do not have a band gap. |
| title | The effect of hyperuniform disorder on band gaps |
| topic | Disordered Systems and Neural Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11710 |