Bosonic Hofstadter butterflies in synthetic antiferromagnetic patterns
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2020-08-20 v1 Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The emergence of Hofstadter butterflies for bosons in synthetic-gauge-field antiferromagnetic patterns is theoretically studied. We report on a specific tight-binding model of artificial antiferromagnetic structures incorporating both nearest and next-to-nearest neighbour tunnelings and allowing for the formation of the fractal spectra even with the vanishing gauge field flux through the lattice. The model is applied to square and honeycomb lattices. Possible experimental realization is suggested for the lattices of microring resonators connected by waveguides. Finally, the structure of the butterflies is analyzed for different points in the magnetic Brillouin zone for both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic patterns.
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@article{arxiv.2008.08447,
title = {Bosonic Hofstadter butterflies in synthetic antiferromagnetic patterns},
author = {Yury S Krivosenko and Ivan V Iorsh and Ivan A Shelykh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08447},
year = {2020}
}