Issue |
EPL
Volume 88, Number 4, November 2009
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Article Number | 40007 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/40007 | |
Published online | 03 December 2009 |
Physical consequences of complex dimensions of fractals
1
Department of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University - New Haven, CT 06520, USA
2
Department of Physics, University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT 06269, USA
3
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Corresponding author: dunne@phys.uconn.edu
Received:
5
August
2009
Accepted:
2
November
2009
It has been realized that fractals may be characterized by complex dimensions, arising from complex poles of the corresponding zeta function, and we show here that these lead to oscillatory behavior in various physical quantities. We identify the physical origin of these complex poles as the exponentially large degeneracy of the iterated eigenvalues of the Laplacian, and discuss applications in quantum mesoscopic systems such as oscillations in the fluctuation of the number of levels, as a correction to results obtained in random matrix theory. We present explicit expressions for these oscillations for families of diamond fractals, also studied as hierarchical lattices.
PACS: 05.45.Df – Fractals / 73.23.-b – Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems / 05.60.Gg – Quantum transport
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