Wednesday, December 31, 2014

condensed matter - Dispersion relation in tight binding model with even indices only


Given a tight binding model with Hamiltonian


H=i(even)t[ci+1ci+h.c]


containing even indices only, how can we find out the dispersion relation?


Attempt:


My guess is that the dispersion relation is just 2tcos(ka)2 i.e. half the regular tight binding model. I could not find the source for dispersion relation with two different hopping amplitudes. If I had, I would just replace one with zero.




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