Quasicrystalline electronic states of a one-dimensionally modulated Ag film

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Apr 21;96(15):156401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.156401. Epub 2006 Apr 17.

Abstract

Ag films on GaAs(110) exhibit a one-dimensional quasiperiodic modulation, resulting in a Fibonacci sequence of parallel stripes with two different widths. Valence level photoemission shows that the Ag electronic states acquire a unique character along the quasiperiodic direction, distinctively manifested by a hierarchy of energy level replicas and avoided crossings at characteristic intervals in reciprocal space. These observations demonstrate the strong influence of the one-dimensional quasiperiodic potential on the Ag film states.