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Magnetic square lattice with vertex coupling of a preferred orientation

Mathematical Physics 2023-05-31 v1 math.MP Spectral Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We analyze a square lattice graph in a magnetic field assuming that the vertex coupling is of a particular type violating the time reversal invariance. Calculating the spectrum numerically for rational values of the flux per plaquette we show how the two effects compete; at the high energies it is the magnetic field which dominates restoring asymptotically the familiar Hofstadter's butterfly pattern.

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@article{arxiv.2302.04601,
  title  = {Magnetic square lattice with vertex coupling of a preferred orientation},
  author = {Marzieh Baradaran and Pavel Exner and Jiří Lipovský},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.04601},
  year   = {2023}
}

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19 pages, 6 figures