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Title: ac conductivity of a one-dimensional site-disordered lattice

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev., B; (United States)

We report the results of a numerical study of the ac conductivity for the Anderson model of a one-dimensional, site-disordered system of 400 atoms. For different degrees of disorder, we directly diagonalized the Anderson Hamiltonian, used the Kubo-Greenwood formula to evaluate the conductivity, and then averaged the conductivity over 12 configurations. We found that the dominant frequency dependence of the conductivity consisted of a single peak which shifted to higher frequency and decreased in overall magnitude as the disorder was increased. The joint density of states and the eigenstate localization were also computed and are discussed in connection with our results.

Research Organization:
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
OSTI ID:
6733092
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev., B; (United States), Vol. 17:12
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English