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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

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

The B-model approach of topological string theory leads to difference equations by quantizing algebraic mirror curves. It is known that these quantum mechanical systems are solved by the refined topological strings. Recently, it was pointed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Yuji Sugimoto , Zhaojie Xu

The studies of quantum states and optics in a {\it p}-type heterojunction with lateral surface quantum dot (antidot) superlattice and in the presence of perpendicular magnetic field are performed. For the first time the Azbel'-- Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , D. V. Khomitsky

Motivated by recent experimental attempts to detect the Hofstadter butterfly, we numerically calculate the Hall conductivity in a modulated two-dimensional electron system with disorder in the quantum Hall regime. We identify the critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

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 have developed a different quantum transfer matrix method to accurately determine thermodynamic properties of the Hofstadter model. This method resolves a technical problem which is intractable by other methods and makes the calculation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 W. H. Xu , L. P. Yang , M. P. Qin , T. Xiang

The quantization of Hall conductance in a p-type heterojunction with lateral surface quantum dot superlattice is investigated. The topological properties of the four-component hole wavefunction are studied both in r- and k-spaces. New…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , D. V. Khomitskiy

We propose that Hofstadter's butterfly accompanied by quantum Hall effect that is similar to those predicted to occur in 3D tight-binding systems by Koshino {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 1062 (2001)] can be realized in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

The trans-series completion of perturbative series of a wide class of quantum mechanical systems can be determined by combining the resurgence program and extra input coming from exact WKB analysis. In this paper, we reexamine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Jie Gu , Zhaojie Xu

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

We dig out a deeper mathematical structure of the quantum Hall system from a perspective of the Langlands program. An algebraic expression of the Hamiltonian with the quantum group is a cornerstone. The Langlands duality of the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Kazuki Ikeda

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

We study the effects of the Coulomb interactions between electrons on the Hofstadter butterfly, which characterizes the subband structure of the Landau levels of a two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vidar Gudmundsson , Rolf R. Gerhardts

We consider certain quantum spectral problems appearing in the study of local Calabi-Yau geometries. The quantum spectrum can be computed by the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization condition for a period integral. For the case of small Planck…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Min-xin Huang , Xian-fu Wang

We develop a generic $\mathbf{k}\cdot \mathbf{p}$ open momentum space method for calculating the Hofstadter butterfly of both continuum (Moir\'e) models and tight-binding models, where the quasimomentum is directly substituted by the Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Biao Lian , Fang Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig

The Hofstadter model, well-known for its fractal butterfly spectrum, describes two-dimensional electrons under a perpendicular magnetic field, which gives rise to the integer quantum hall effect. Inspired by the real-space building blocks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Yi Yang , Bo Zhen , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

The goal of this paper is to find the quantization conditions of Bohr-Sommerfeld of k quantum Hamiltonians acting on the euclidian space of dimension n, depending on a small parameter h, and which commute to each other. That is we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Anne , A-M. Charbonnel

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

We show that the electronic spectrum of a tight-binding Hamiltonian defined in a quasiperiodic chain with an on-site potential given by a Fibonacci sequence, can be obtained as a superposition of Harper potentials. The electronic spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Gerardo G. Naumis , F. J. Lopez-Rodriguez
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