Conductance through geometrically frustrated itinerant electronic systems

Abstract

We study a two terminal electronic conductance through an AB${}_2$ ring which is an example of the family of itinerant geometrically frustrated electronic systems. These systems are characterized by the existence of localized states with nodes in the probability density. We show that such states lead to distinct features in the conductance. For zero magnetic flux, the localized states act as a filter of the zero frequency conductance peak, if the contact sites have hopping probability to sites which are not nodes of the localized states. For finite flux, and in a chosen orthonormal basis, the localized states have extensions ranging from two unit cells to the complete ring, except for very particular values of magnetic flux. The conductance exhibits a zero frequency peak with a dip which is a distinct fingerprint of the variable extension of these localized states.

10 pages, 9 figures

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