We study numerically the electronic properties of one-dimensional systems with long-range correlated binary potentials.The potentials are mapped from binary sequences with a power-law power spectrum over the entire frequency range,which is characterized by correlation exponent β.We find the localization length ξ increases with β.At system sizes N →∞,there are no extended states.However,there exists a transition at a threshold β c.When β > β c,we obtain ξ > 0.On the other hand,at finite system sizes,ξ≥ N may happen at certain β,which makes the system 'metallic',and the upper-bound system size N (β) is given.
