Persistent currents and electronic properties of Mandelbrot quantum rings

Abstract

AbstractIn this study, we investigate the persistent current, and electronic energy levels of Mandelbrot quantum rings. For this purpose, three types of Mandelbrot quantum rings are proposed. Furthermore, Mandelbrot equation is generalized by introducing parameter m, which makes Mandelbrot’s shape more symmetric by adding new branches to it, on the other hand, the iteration parameter M, controls geometrical deficiencies. We explain the procedure needed to form these structures, including a padding scheme, then we solve the resulting two-dimensional Schrodinger equation using the central finite difference method with uniform distribution of the mesh points. Thereafter, we obtain the persistent current in different situations including different Mandelbrot orders and quantum ring shapes. We show that the persistent current can have different shapes and intensities by changing the described geometrical parameters of Mandelbrot quantum rings. We explain this phenomenon by considering symmetries in the potential, and consequently the wavefunction.