Characteristic of alternating current hopping conductivity in one-dimensional binary disordered system with off-diagonal correlations

Abstract

Based on a tight-binding disordered model describing a single electron band, we establish a model of one-dimensional binary disordered systems with off-diagonal correlations, and derive the alternating current (ac) conductance formula. By calculating the ac conductivity, the function of disorder and off-diagonal correlations in electronic transport are analyzed, and the dependence of the ac conductivity on the field frequency and the temperature is studied. The results indicate that the ac conductivity of one-dimensional binary disordered system decreases with the increasing of the degree of lattices energy disorder. And the ac conductivity of the system is also dependent on the probabilities p, which represents the degree of compositional disorder of the system to some extent. The ac conductivity of system first decreases with the increasing of p, then increases with farther increasing of p. We also find that off-diagonal correlations lead to delocalization and enhance the ac conductivity of the system，namely, the ac conductivity of one-dimensional binary disordered system with off-diagonal correlations is larger than that of uncorrelated system in the Anderson limit. Moreover, the ac conductivity of one-dimensional binary disordered system decreases with the increasing of temperature, and increases drastically with the increasing of the frequency of the electric field.