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Hofstadter's butterfly, the predicted energy spectrum for non-interacting electrons confined to a two-dimensional lattice in a magnetic field, is one of the most remarkable fractal structures in nature. At rational ratios of magnetic flux…

We calculate the electronic spectrum of bilayer graphene in perpendicular magnetic fields nonperturbatively. To accommodate arbitrary displacements between the two layers, we apply a periodic gauge based on singular flux vortices of phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Nemec , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The presence of periodic modulation in graphene leads to a reconstruction of the band structure and formation of minibands. In an external uniform magnetic field, a fractal energy spectrum called Hofstadter butterfly is formed. Particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

We present an overview of the theoretical understanding of Hofstadter butterflies in monolayer and bilayer graphene. After a brief introduction on the past work in conventional semiconductor systems, we discuss the novel electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Tapash Chakraborty , Vadym M. Apalkov

We present here a Hofstadter's butterfly spectrum for the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene obtained using an ab initio based multi-million atom tight-binding model. We incorporate a hexagonal boron nitride substrate and out-of-plane…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-08 Alina Wania Rodrigues , Maciej Bieniek , Paweł Potasz , Daniel Miravet , Ronny Thomale , Marek Korkusiński , Paweł Hawrylak

The Hofstadter butterfly spectral patterns of lattice electrons in an external magnetic field yield some of the most beguiling images in physics. Here we explore the magneto-electronic spectra of systems with moire spatial patterns,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

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

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…

Electrons on the lattice subject to a strong magnetic field exhibit the fractal spectrum of electrons, which is known as the Hofstadter butterfly. In this work, we investigate unconventional superconductivity in a three-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-03 Moon Jip Park , Yong Baek Kim , SungBin Lee

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

Self-similarity and fractals have fascinated researchers across various disciplines. In graphene placed on boron nitride and subjected to a magnetic field, self-similarity appears in the form of numerous replicas of the original Dirac…

In the presence of a magnetic field and an external periodic potential, the Landau level spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas exhibits a fractal pattern in the energy spectrum which is described as the Hofstadter's butterfly. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Wenchen Luo , Tapash Chakraborty

We theoretically study the Hofstadter butterfly of a triangular network model in minimally twisted bilayer graphene (mTBLG). The band structure manifests periodicity in energy, mimicking that of Floquet systems. The butterfly diagrams…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

We investigate theoretically the spectrum of a graphene-like sample (honeycomb lattice) subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and irradiated by circularly polarized light. This system is studied using the Floquet formalism, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 S. H. Kooi , A. Quelle , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

We investigate the optical absorption spectrum and the selection rule for the Hofstadter butterfly in twisted bilayer graphene under magnetic fields. We demonstrate that the absorption spectrum exhibits a self-similar recursive pattern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-13 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

We study graphene antidot lattices (GALs) in magnetic fields. Using a tight-binding model and a recursive Green's function technique that we extend to deal with periodic structures, we calculate Hofstadter butterflies of GALs. We compare…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Jesper Goor Pedersen , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Electrons exposed to a two-dimensional (2D) periodic potential and a uniform, perpendicular magnetic field exhibit a fractal, self-similiar energy spectrum known as the Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, related high-temperature quantum…

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

The emergence of Hofstadter butterflies for bosons in synthetic-gauge-field antiferromagnetic patterns is theoretically studied. We report on a specific tight-binding model of artificial antiferromagnetic structures incorporating both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Yury S Krivosenko , Ivan V Iorsh , Ivan A Shelykh

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
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