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Topological quantum phases underpin many concepts of modern physics. While the existence of disorder-immune topological edge states of electrons usually requires magnetic fields, direct effects of magnetic field on light are very weak. As a…

We consider the existence and spectral stability of periodic multi-pulse solutions in Hamiltonian systems which are translation invariant and reversible, for which the fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries equation is a prototypical example. We use…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Ross Parker , Björn Sandstede

The real Hilbert space formalism developed within the quaternionic quantum mechanics ($\mathbb H$QM) is fully applied to the simple model of the autonomous particle. This framework permits novel insights within the usual description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Sergio Giardino

When subjected to a strong magnetic field, electrons on a two-dimensional lattice acquire a fractal energy spectrum called Hofstadter's butterfly. In addition to its unique recursive structure, the Hofstadter butterfly is intimately linked…

Motivated by applications for non-perturbative topological strings in toric Calabi--Yau manifolds, we discuss the spectral problem for a pair of commuting modular conjugate (in the sense of Faddeev) Harper type operators, corresponding to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Rinat M. Kashaev , Sergey M. Sergeev

Hofstadter's diagram, or the energy spectrum against the magnetic field in tight-binding systems, is obtained for the models having flat (dispersionless) one-electron band(s) that have originally been proposed for itinerant spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hideo Aoki , Masato Ando , Hajime Matsumura

We address the multiplicity of solutions to the time-energy canonical commutation relation for a given Hamiltonian. Specifically, we consider a particle spatially confined in a potential free interval, where it is known that two distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Cristopher F. Caballar , Eric A. Galapon

We propose a general correspondence which associates a non-perturbative quantum-mechanical operator to a toric Calabi-Yau manifold, and we conjecture an explicit formula for its spectral determinant in terms of an M-theoretic version of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Alba Grassi , Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Marcos Marino

Quantum evolution of a two-spin system with anisotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian in the magnetic field is considered. We show that this evolution happens on some manifold with geometry depending on the ratio between the interaction couplings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 A. R. Kuzmak

The properties of the Hofstadter butterfly, a fractal, self similar spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas, are studied in the case where the system is additionally illuminated with monochromatic light. This is accomplished by applying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Martin Wackerl , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

We study Hofstadter bilayers, i.e. coupled hopping models on two-dimensional square lattices in a perpendicular magnetic field. Upon tracing out one of the layers, we find an explicit expression for the resulting entanglement spectrum in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-13 John Schliemann

The competition between the length scales associated with the periodicity of a lattice potential and the cyclotron radius of a uniform magnetic field is known to have dramatic effects on the single-particle properties of a quantum particle,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-28 R. O. Umucalilar , M. Iskin

In a previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047202 (2019)] a translationally invariant framework called quantum-electrodynamical Bloch (QED-Bloch) theory was introduced for the description of periodic materials in homogeneous magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Vasil Rokaj , Markus Penz , Michael A. Sentef , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

A finite dimensional system with a quadratic Hamiltonian constraint is Dirac quantized in holomorphic, antiholomorphic and mixed representations. A unique inner product is found by imposing Hermitian conjugacy relations on an operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Jorma Louko

In conventional quantum mechanics, all unitary evolution takes place within the space-time Hilbert space $\mathcal H_{xt}=L^2(\mathcal M_{xt})$, with time as the sole evolution parameter. The momentum-energy representation $\phi(k,E)$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sheng Ran

Recent advances in the Langlands program shed light on a vast area of modern mathematics from an unconventional viewpoint, including number theory, gauge theory, representation, knot theory and etc. By applying to physics, these novel…

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We study the quantum dynamics of the Bose-Hubbard model on a ladder formed by two rings coupled by tunneling effect. By implementing the Bogoliubov approximation scheme, we prove that, despite the presence of the inter-ring coupling term,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-22 Andrea Richaud , Vittorio Penna

The Hamiltonian of a system of two quantum mechanical particles moving on the $d$-dimensional lattice $\Z^d$ and interacting via zero-range attractive pair potentials is considered. For the two-particle energy operator $H_{\mu}(K),$ $K\in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Saidakhmat N. Lakaev , Shohruh Yu. Holmatov

Controlling the translational motion of cold atoms using optical lattice potentials is of both theoretical and experimental interest. By designing two on-resonance time sequences of kicking optical lattice potentials, a novel connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jiao Wang , Anders S. Mouritzen , Jiangbin Gong

In this work we study the quantum periods together with their Picard-Fuchs differential equations of Calabi-Yau fourfolds. In contrast to Calabi-Yau threefolds, we argue that the large volume points of Calabi-Yau fourfolds generically are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Andreas Gerhardus , Hans Jockers