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The problem of two interacting particles in a quasiperiodic potential is addressed. Using analytical and numerical methods, we explore the spectral properties and eigenstates structure from the weak to the strong interaction case. More…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Armelle Barelli , Jean Bellissard , Philippe Jacquod , Dima L. Shepelyansky

The self-similar energy spectrum of a particle in a periodic potential under a magnetic field, known as the Hofstadter butterfly, is determined by the lattice geometry as well as the external field. Recent realizations of artificial gauge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-05 F. Yılmaz , M. Ö. Oktel

We study the relation between the global topology of the Hofstadter butterfly of a multiband insulator and the topological invariants of the underlying Hamiltonian. The global topology of the butterfly, i.e., the displacement of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Janos K. Asboth , Andrea Alberti

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

The energy spectrum of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under two dimensional periodic magnetic modulation having square lattice symmetry is calculated. We show that the translation symmetry of the problem is similar to that of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Manisha Arora , Sankalpa Ghosh

Quantum systems with Hofstadter's butterfly spectrum are of fundamental interest to many research areas. Based upon slight modifications of existing cold-atom experiments, a cold-atom realization of quantum maps with Hofstadter's butterfly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiao Wang , Jiangbin Gong

We study a pair of canonoid (fouled) Hamiltonians of the harmonic oscillator which provide, at the classical level, the same equation of motion as the conventional Hamiltonian. These Hamiltonians, say $K_{1}$ and $K_{2}$, result to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 P. Tempesta , E. Alfinito , R. A. Leo , G. Soliani

We study the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian and its corresponding non-perturbative butterfly spectrum. The problem is algebraically solvable whenever the magnetic flux is a rational multiple of $2\pi$. For such values of the magnetic flux,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Zhihao Duan , Jie Gu , Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tin Sulejmanpasic

We extensively study the localization and the quantum Hall effect in the Hofstadter butterfly, which emerges in a two-dimensional electron system with a weak two-dimensional periodic potential. We numerically calculate the Hall conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

We propose a new physical interpretation of the Diophantine equation of $\sigma_{xy}$ for the Hofstadter problem. First, we divide the energy spectrum, or Hofstadter's butterfly, into smaller self-similar areas called "subcells", which were…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-13 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

The Hofstadter model illustrates the notion of topological quantum numbers and how they account for the quantization of the Hall conductance. It gives rise to colorful fractal diagrams of butterflies where the colors represent the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Avron , D. Osadchy

We theoretically introduce and study a three-dimensional Hofstadter model with linearly varying non-Abelian gauge potentials along all three dimensions. The model can be interpreted as spin-orbit coupling among a trio of Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Vincent Liu , Yi Yang , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

The Hofstadter butterfly is viewed as a quantum phase diagram with infinitely many phases, labelled by their (integer) Hall conductance, and a fractal structure. We describe various properties of this phase diagram: We establish Gibbs phase…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Osadchy , J. Avron

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

The Hofstadter butterfly (HB) and mobility edges (MEs) are hallmark phenomena of quasiperiodic systems, yet their interplay remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate their coexistence within a tilt-induced quasiperiodic potential on a square…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-19 Sanghoon Lee , Kyoung-Min Kim

We study two-dimensional Hamiltonians in phase space with noncommutativity both in coordinates and momenta. We consider the generator of rotations on the noncommutative plane and the Lie algebra generated by Hermitian rotationally invariant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 H. Falomir , P. A. G. Pisani , F. Vega , D. Cárcamo , F. Méndez , M. Loewe

We show here a series of energy gaps as in Hofstadter's butterfly, which have been shown to exist by Koshino et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1062 (2001)] for anisotropic three-dimensional (3D) periodic systems in magnetic fields $\Vec{B}$, also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 M. Koshino , H. Aoki

We study the properties of quantum cusp and butterfly catastrophes from an algebraic viewpoint. The analysis employs an interacting boson model Hamiltonian describing quantum phase transitions between specific quadrupole shapes by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-03 A. Leviatan , N. Gavrielov

The electronic state of \alpha-type organic Dirac fermion systems such as \alpha-(ET)_2I_3 or \alpha-(BETS)_2I_3 has been studied under magnetic fields using the four-band tight-binding model with Peierls phase factors. The validity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Toshihito Osada

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