Published June 15, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Closed formulae for Green functions on fractal lattices

  • 1. Dept. of Physics, Montana State Univ., Bozeman (United States)

Description

Closed form solutions are found for Schroedinger Green functions x (corner-to-same-corner) and y (corner-to-other-corner) on the 3-simplex, the 4-simplex and two other fractal lattices. It is elementary to derive the well known recursions of the form x→X(x,y), y→Y(x,y) relating generations n and n+1 of the lattice. We have now obtained an infinite hierarchy of exact solutions to these recursions expressing x, y as closed formulae in terms of initial condition (energy) and generation number n. This amounts to constructing a hierarchy of orbits for the dynamics of the renormalization map. To our knowledge, no other such solutions have been found previously. For each of these solutions, y scales as a power of the lattice size, which is of interest in relation to conductance scaling in Anderson localization. One cannot study power-law scaling numerically using the recursions alone, since the asymptotic behavior of y at large length scale is chaotic with respect to the energy parameter. Thus, the chances of finding any power-law solution are measure zero in the initial conditions, most of which lead to superlocalized, stretched exponential behaviors of y with lattice size. In contrast, the exact solutions each connect a value of energy to an unambiguous asymptotic behavior. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica A
Journal Volume
185
Journal Issue
1-4
Series
Physica A.
Journal Page Range
195-201
ISSN
0378-4371
CODEN
PHYAD

Conference

Title
Fractals, spin glasses and neural networks.
Acronym
International conference on complex systems
Dates
2-6 Jul 1991.
Place
Miramare, Trieste (Italy).