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Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide 20 an efficient way to engineer electron band properties. The recent discovery of exotic quantum phases and their interplay in twisted bilayer…

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

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

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 investigate topological phenomena in a spatially modulated Dirac-$\delta$ lattice, where the scattering potential varies periodically in space. Changing the potential modulation frequency leads to Hofstadter's butterfly-like energy…

In the presence of crystalline symmetries, topological phases of matter acquire a host of invariants leading to non-trivial quantized responses. Here we study a particular invariant, the discrete shift $\mathscr{S}$, for the square lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-03 Yuxuan Zhang , Naren Manjunath , Gautam Nambiar , Maissam Barkeshli

We study the Hofstadter butterfly and Landau levels of the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We show that the nontrivial fragile topology of the lowest two bands near the charge neutral point makes their Hofstadter butterfly generically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Biao Lian , Fang Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig

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

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

The far-infrared absorption of a two-dimensional electron gas with a square-lattice modulation in a perpendicular constant magnetic field is calculated self-consistently within the Hartree approximation. For strong modulation and short…

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

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

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

In a recent experimental work [Z. Wu et al., Science 354, 83 (2016)], the PKU-USTC group realized a two-dimensional two-band quantum anomalous Hall model on a square Raman lattice. By quenching the atom-laser detuning of such a Raman…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-24 Jinlong Yu

A striking example of frustration in physics is Hofstadter's butterfly, a fractal structure that emerges from the competition between a crystal's lattice periodicity and the magnetic length of an applied field. Current methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Catalin D. Spataru , Wei Pan , Alexander Cerjan

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

In this paper we propose a Hamiltonian approach to gapped topological phases on an open surface with boundary. Our setting is an extension of the Levin-Wen model to a 2d graph on the open surface, whose boundary is part of the graph. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuting Hu , Zhu-Xi Luo , Ren Pankovich , Yidun Wan , Yong-Shi Wu

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

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 Hofstadter model is a simple yet powerful Hamiltonian to study quantum Hall physics in a lattice system, manifesting its essential topological states. Lattice dimerization in the Hofstadter model opens an energy gap at half filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Alexander Lau , Carmine Ortix , Jeroen van den Brink

The $\alpha$-$T_3$ model extrapolates between the pseudospin $S=1/2$ honeycomb lattice of graphene and the pseudospin $S=1$ dice lattice via parameter $\alpha$. We present calculations of the magnetic properties of this hybrid pseudospin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 E. Illes , E. J. Nicol