Phase coherence in tight-binding models with nonrandom long-range hopping

Abstract

The density of states, even for a perfectly ordered tight-binding model, can exhibit a tail-like feature at the top of the band, provided the hopping integral falls off in space slowly enough. We apply the coherent potential approximation to study the eigenstates of a tight-binding Hamiltonian with uncorrelated diagonal disorder and long-range hopping, falling off as a power $\mu$ of the intersite distance. For a certain interval of hopping range exponent $\mu$, we show that the phase coherence length is infinite for the outermost state of the tail, irrespectively of the strength of disorder. Such anomalous feature can be explained by the smallness of the phase-space volume for the disorder scattering from this state. As an application of the theory, we mention that ballistic regime can be realized for Frenkel excitons in two-dimensional molecular aggregates, affecting to a large extent the optical response and energy transport.

9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PRB

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