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Quantum transport in Sierpinski carpets

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  • Edo van Veen
  • Shengjun Yuan
  • Mikhail I. Katsnelson
  • Marco Polini
  • Andrea Tomadin
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Article number115428
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>15/03/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review B
Issue number11
Volume93
Number of pages5
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Recent progress in the design and fabrication of artificial two-dimensional (2D) materials paves the way for the experimental realization of electron systems moving on complex geometries, such as plane fractals. In this work, we calculate the quantum conductance of a 2D electron gas roaming on a Sierpinski carpet (SC), i.e., a plane fractal with Hausdorff dimension intermediate between 1 and 2. We find that the fluctuations of the quantum conductance are a function of energy with a fractal graph, whose dimension can be chosen by changing the geometry of the SC. This behavior is independent of the underlying lattice geometry.