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Electrons moving through a spatially periodic lattice potential develop a quantized energy spectrum consisting of discrete Bloch bands. In two dimensions, electrons moving through a magnetic field also develop a quantized energy spectrum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 C. R. Dean , L. Wang , P. Maher , C. Forsythe , F. Ghahari , Y. Gao , J. Katoch , M. Ishigami , P. Moon , M. Koshino , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , K. L. Shepard , J. Hone , P. Kim

We study an energy spectrum of electron moving under the constant magnetic field in two dimensional noncommutative space. It take place with the gauge invariant way. The Hofstadter butterfly diagram of the noncommutative space is calculated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hidenori Takahashi , Masanori Yamanaka

The first quantum fractal discovered in physics is the Hofstadter butterfly. It stems from large external magnetic fields. We discover instead a new class of non-Hermitian quantum fractals (NHQFs) emerging in coupled Hatano-Nelson models on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Junsong Sun , Chang-An Li , Qingyang Guo , Weixuan Zhang , Shiping Feng , Xiangdong Zhang , Huaiming Guo , Björn Trauzettel

The Aubry-Andre model is a one-dimensional lattice model for quasicrystals with localized and delocalized phases. At the localization transition point, the system displays fractal spectrum, which relates to the Hofstadter butterfly. In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-24 Ang-Kun Wu

The energy spectrum of a tight-binding Hamiltonian is studied for the two-dimensional quasiperiodic Rauzy tiling in a perpendicular magnetic field. This spectrum known as a Hofstadter butterfly displays a very rich pattern of bulk gaps that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 J. -N Fuchs , J. Vidal

In view of promising applications of fractal nanostructures, we analyze the spectra of quantum particles in the Sierpinski carpet and study the non-correlated electron gas in this geometry. We show that the spectrum exhibits scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Alberto Hernando , Miroslav Sulc , Jiri Vanicek

We give a perspective on the Hofstadter butterfly (fractal energy spectrum in magnetic fields), which we have shown to arise specifically in three-dimensional(3D) systems in our previous work. (i) We first obtain the `phase diagram' on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Koshino , H. Aoki , T. Osada , K. Kuroki , S. Kagoshima

Celebrating its golden jubilee, the Hofstadter butterfly fractal emerges as a remarkable fusion of art and science. This iconic X shaped fractal captivates physicists, mathematicians, and enthusiasts alike by elegantly illustrating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Indubala Satija

We address the energy spectrum of honeycomb lattice with various defects or impurities under a perpendicular magnetic field. We use a tight-binding Hamiltonian including interactions with the nearest neighbors and investigate its energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Yoshiyuki Matsuki , Kazuki Ikeda

The \lq Hofstadter butterfly', a plot of the spectrum of an electron in a two-dimensional periodic potential with a uniform magnetic field, contains subsets which resemble small, distorted images of the entire plot. We show how the sizes of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Indubala I. Satija , Michael Wilkinson

We investigate the electronic properties in the Bloch electron on a square lattice with vacancies in the uniform magnetic field. We show that a single vacancy site introduced to the system creates a defect energy level in every single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yoshiyuki Matsuki , Kazuki Ikeda , Mikito Koshino

Energy bands of electrons in a square lattice potential threaded by a uniform magnetic field exhibit a fractal structure known as the Hofstadter butterfly. Here we study a Fermi gas in a 2D optical lattice within a linear cavity with a tilt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-06 Elvia Colella , Farokh Mivehvar , Francesco Piazza , Helmut Ritsch

We calculate the energy band structure for electrons in an external periodic potential combined with a perpendicular magnetic field. Electron-electron interactions are included within a Hartree approximation. The calculated energy spectra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Egidijus Anisimovas , Peter Johansson

Spinless, interacting electrons on a finite size triangular lattice moving in an extremely strong perpendicular magnetic field are studied and compared with the results on a square lattice. Using a Falicov-Kimball model, the effects of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 Subhasree Pradhan

Motivated by recent progress on non-Hermitian topological band theories, we study the energy spectrum of a generic two-band non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We prove rigorously that the complex energy spectrum of such a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Jonatan Melkær Midtgaard , Zhigang Wu , Yu Chen

We study quasisymmetric maps on two variants of the classical fractal percolation model: the fat and dense fractal percolations. We show that, almost surely conditioned on non-extinction, the Hausdorff dimension of the fat fractal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Roope Anttila , Sylvester Eriksson-Bique , Aleksi Pyörälä

The problem of two-dimensional, independent electrons subject to a periodic potential and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field unveils surprisingly rich physics, as epitomized by the fractal energy spectrum known as Hofstadter's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 S. Janecek , M. Aichinger , E. R. Hernandez

Hofstadter showed that the energy levels of electrons on a lattice plotted as a function of magnetic field form an beautiful structure now referred to as "Hofstadter's butterfly". We study a non-Hermitian continuation of Hofstadter's model;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Connor Wallace

For a three-dimensional lattice in magnetic fields we have shown that the hopping along the third direction, which normally tends to smear out the Landau quantization gaps, can rather give rise to a fractal energy spectram akin to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Koshino , H. Aoki , K. Kuroki , S. Kagoshima , T. Osada

We consider one dimensional quantum Ising spin-1/2 chains with two-valued nearest neighbor couplings arranged in a quasi-periodic sequence, with uniform, transverse magnetic field. By employing the Jordan-Wigner transformation of the spin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 W. N. Yessen
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