Abstract
The one-dimensional alloy is presented to study electron properties of binary alloys intermediate between periodicity and randomness. The system studied is represented by a tight-binding Hamiltonian with diagonal elements given by , where if then , otherwise , and indicates the site energy of the atom. The Hamiltonian is exactly renormalized with the use of a decimation technique. Densities of states and band structures are calculated by the recursion relations. It is shown that the bands break up into narrower subbands with increasing . It appears that when becomes each band breaks up into triplet subbands, and as the density of states approaches a limit with an infinite number of band gaps.
- Received 13 July 1984
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.30.6241
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