Localization in the Incommensurate Systems: A Plane Wave Study via Effective Potentials

In this paper, we apply the effective potentials in the localization landscape theory (Filoche et al., 2012, Arnold et al., 2016) to study the spectral properties of the incommensurate systems. We uniquely develop a plane wave method for the effective potentials of the incommensurate systems and utilize that, the localization of the electron density can be inferred from the effective potentials. Moreover, we show that the spectrum distribution can also be obtained from the effective potential version of Weyl’s law. We perform some numerical experiments on some typical incommensurate systems, showing that the effective potential provides an alternative tool for investigating the localization and spectrum distribution of the systems.