NUMERICAL STUDY OF LOCALIZATION OF DIRAC FERMIONS ON A LATTICE IN 2 DIMENSIONS

被引:36
作者
HATSUGAI, Y
LEE, PA
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 48卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.48.4204
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We studied the effects of impurities on Dirac fermions numerically. We used a tight-binding Hamiltonian of fermions with the magnetic flux equal to pi per plaquette for the model. A small amount of strong impurities create states near the zero energy and strong localization of these states is observed. Our results support a recent proposal of localization effects in a gapless d-wave superconductor.
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页码:4204 / 4207
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