Cuansing E, Nakanishi H
Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Dec;70(6 Pt 2):066142. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.066142. Epub 2004 Dec 28.
We study the transport of a quantum particle through square lattices of various sizes by employing the tight-binding Hamiltonian from quantum percolation. Input and output semi-infinite chains are attached to the lattice either by diagonal point-to-point contacts or by a busbar connection. We find resonant transmission and reflection occurring whenever the incident particle's energy is near an eigenvalue of the lattice alone (i.e., the lattice without the chains attached). We also find the transmission to be strongly dependent on the way the chains are attached to the lattice.