Exceptional Lattice Green's Functions
Abstract
The three exceptional lattices, $E_6$, $E_7$, and $E_8$, have attracted much attention due to their anomalously dense and symmetric structures which are of critical importance in modern theoretical physics. Here, we study the electronic band structure of a single spinless quantum particle hopping between their nearest-neighbor lattice points in the tight-binding limit. Using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, we numerically sample their lattice Green's functions, densities of states, and random walk return probabilities. We find and tabulate a plethora of Van Hove singularities in the densities of states, including degenerate ones in $E_6$ and $E_7$. Finally, we use brute force enumeration to count the number of distinct closed walks of length up to eight, which gives the first eight moments of the densities of states.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1710.10260
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1710.10260
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv171010260S
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter;
- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, Submitting to Communications in Mathematical Physics, Comments welcome