Absolutely Continuous Spectrum and Ballistic Transport in a One-dimensional Quasiperiodic System

We analyse a quasiperiodic arrangement of four atomic sites sitting at the vertices of a diamond shaped plaquette and single isolated sites, occupying a one dimensional backbone following a Fibonacci quasicrystal pattern. We work within a tight binding formalism. It is shown that, even with this simple deviation from pure one dimension, a definite relation between the numerical values of the system parameters will render all the single particle states completely extended. The spectrum will be absolutely continuous with the transmission completely ballistic throughout the band, completely violating the Cantor set character of the usual Fibonacci quasiperiodic chains.