Physical Properties of an Aperiodic Monotile with Graphene-like Features, Chirality, and Zero Modes
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS(2024)
Abstract
The discovery of the Hat, an aperiodic monotile, has revealed novel mathematical aspects of aperiodic tilings. However, the physics of particles propagating in such a setting remains unexplored. In this work we study spectral and transport properties of a tight -binding model defined on the Hat. We find that (i) the spectral function displays striking similarities to that of graphene, including sixfold symmetry and Diraclike features; (ii) unlike graphene, the monotile spectral function is chiral, differing for its two enantiomers; (iii) the spectrum has a macroscopic number of degenerate states at zero energy; (iv) when the magnetic flux per plaquette (phi) is half of the flux quantum, zero modes are found localized around the reflected "antihats"; and (v) its Hofstadter spectrum is periodic in phi, unlike for other quasicrystals. Our work serves as a basis to study wave and electron propagation in possible experimental realizations of the Hat, which we suggest.
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