Zigzag dice lattice ribbons: Distinct edge morphologies and structure-spectrum correspondences

Abstract

Ribbons of two-dimensional lattices have properties depending sensitively on the morphology of the two edges. For regular ribbons with two parallel straight edges, the atomic chains terminating the two edges may have more than one choices for a general edge orientation. We enumerate the possible choices for zigzag dice lattice ribbons, which are regular ribbons of the dice lattice with edges parallel to a zigzag direction, and explore the relation between the edge morphologies and their electronic spectra. A formula is introduced to count the number of distinct edge termination morphologies for the regular ribbons, which gives 18 distinct edge termination morphologies for the zigzag dice lattice ribbons. For the pure dice model, because the equivalence of the two rim sublattices, the numerical spectra of the zigzag ribbons show qualitative degeneracies among the different edge termination morphologies. For the symmetrically biased dice model, we see a one-to-one correspondence between the 18 edge termination morphologies and their electronic spectra, when both the zero-energy flat bands and the dispersive or nonzero-energy in-gap states are considered. We analytically study several interesting features in the electronic spectra, including the number and wave functions of the zero-energy flat bands, and the analytical spectrum of novel in-gap states. The in-gap states of the zigzag dice lattice ribbons both exhibit interesting similarities and show salient differences when compared to the spectra of the zigzag ribbons of the honeycomb lattice.

arXiv comment20 pages, 10 figures

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