Fractality of Hofstadter Butterfly in Specific Heat Oscillation
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2016-01-05 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We calculate thermodynamical properties of the Hofstadter model using a recently developed quantum transfer matrix method. We find intrinsic oscillation features in specific heat that manifest the fractal structure of the Hofstadter butterfly. We also propose experimental approaches which use specific heat as an access to detect the Hofstadter butterfly.
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@article{arxiv.1009.5751,
title = {Fractality of Hofstadter Butterfly in Specific Heat Oscillation},
author = {L. P. Yang and W. H. Xu and M. P. Qin and T. Xiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5751},
year = {2016}
}
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4 pages