arXiv · cond-mat/0102256
Quantum mechanical relaxation of open quasiperiodic systems
Abstract
We study the time evolution of the survival probability $P(t)$ in open one-dimensional quasiperiodic tight-binding samples of size $L$, at critical conditions. We show that it decays algebraically as $P(t)\sim t^{-α}$ up to times $t^*\sim L^γ$, where $α= 1-D_0^E$, $γ=1/D_0^E$ and $D_0^E$ is the fractal dimension of the spectrum of the closed system. We verified these results for the Harper model at the metal-insulator transition and for Fibonacci lattices. Our predictions should be observable in propagation experiments with electrons or classical waves in quasiperiodic superlattices or dielectric multilayers.
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A. Ossipov, M. Weiss, Tsampikos Kottos, T. Geisel. 2001-02-14. Quantum mechanical relaxation of open quasiperiodic systems. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.64.224210
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