Energy Band Engineering of Periodic Scatterers by Quasi-1D Confinement

Abstract

A mechanism to modify the energy band structure is proposed by considering a chain of periodic scatterers forming a linear lattice around which an external cylindrical trapping potential is applied along the chain axis. When this trapping (confining) potential is tight enough, it may modify the bound and scattering states of the lattice potential, whose three-dimensional nature around each scattering center is fully taken into account and not resorting to zero-range pseudo-potentials. Since these states contribute to the formation of the energy bands, such bands could thereby be continuously tuned by manipulating the confinement without the need to change the lattice potential. In particular, such dimensionality reduction by quantum confinement can close band gaps either at the center or at the edge of the momentum k-space.

arXiv commenttwo column, 9 pages, 4 figures

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