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We propose a unified framework for dealing with matching rules of quasiperiodic patterns, relevant for both tiling models and real world quasicrystals. The approach is intended for extraction and validation of a minimal set of matching…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-07 Pavel Kalugin , André Katz

The spectral gap problem - determining whether the energy spectrum of a system has an energy gap above ground state, or if there is a continuous range of low-energy excitations - pervades quantum many-body physics. Recently, this important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , David Perez-Garcia

The Cheeger inequalities give an upper and lower bound on the spectral gap of discrete Laplacians defined on a graph in terms of the geometric characteristics of the graph. We generalise this approach and we employ it to determine if a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Abbas Al-Shimary , Jiannis K. Pachos

For the almost Mathieu operator with a small coupling constant, for a series of spectral gaps, we describe the asymptotic locations of the gaps and get lower bounds for their lengths. The results are obtained by analysing a monodromy…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Alexander Fedotov

We propose an ansatz for the wave function of a non-interacting quantum particle in a deterministic quasicrystalline potential. It is applicable to both continuous and discrete models and includes Sutherland's hierarchical wave function as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-28 Pavel Kalugin , André Katz

Topological properties of energy spectra of general one-dimensional quasiperiodic systems, describing also Bloch electrons in magnetic fields, are studied for an infinity of irrational modulation frequencies corresponding to irrational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Itzhack Dana

We consider a tight-binding Hamiltonian defined on the quasiperiodic Ammann-Beenker tiling. Although the density of states (DOS) is rather spiky, the integrated DOS is quite smooth and can be used to perform spectral unfolding. The effect…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Schreiber , Uwe Grimm , Rudolf A. Roemer , Jian-Xin Zhong

The Aubry-Andre model is a one-dimensional lattice model for quasicrystals with localized and delocalized phases. At the localization transition point, the system displays fractal spectrum, which relates to the Hofstadter butterfly. In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-24 Ang-Kun Wu

We investigate the resonance spectrum of the H\'enon-Heiles potential up to twice the barrier energy. The quantum spectrum is obtained by the method of complex coordinate rotation. We use periodic orbit theory to approximate the oscillating…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Kaidel , P. Winkler , M. Brack

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

We investigate the topological properties of Fibonacci quasicrystals using cavity polaritons. Composite structures made of the concatenation of two Fibonacci sequences allow investigating generalized edge states forming in the gaps of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 F. Baboux , E. Levy , A. Lemaître , C. Gomez , E. Galopin , L. Le Gratiet , I. Sagnes , A. Amo , J. Bloch , E. Akkermans

We introduce computational strategies for measuring the ``size'' of the spectrum of bounded self-adjoint operators using various metrics such as the Lebesgue measure, fractal dimensions, the number of connected components (or gaps), and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Matthew J. Colbrook , Mark Embree , Jake Fillman

We consider a quantum particle in a periodic structure submitted to a constant external electromotive force. The periodic background is given by a smooth potential plus singular point interactions and has the property that the gaps between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Joachim Asch , Pierre Duclos , Pavel Exner

We present a proposal for the realization of entanglement Hamiltonians in one-dimensional critical spin systems with strongly interacting cold atoms. Our approach is based on the notion that the entanglement spectrum of such systems can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-10 R. E. Barfknecht , T. Mendes-Santos , L. Fallani

Fine-grained spectral properties of quantum Hamiltonians, including both eigenvalues and their multiplicities, provide useful information for characterizing many-body quantum systems as well as for understanding phenomena such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Zhiyan Ding , Lin Lin , Yilun Yang , Ruizhe Zhang

We prove a uniform spectral gap for complex transfer operators near the critical line associated to overlapping $C^2$ iterated function systems on the real line satisfying a Uniform Non-Integrability (UNI) condition. Our work extends that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Simon Baker , Tuomas Sahlsten

Topological description of hierarchical sets of spectral gaps of Hofstadter butterfly is found to be encoded in a quasicrystal where magnetic flux plays the role of a phase factor that shifts the origin of the quasiperiodic order. Revealing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-05-02 Indubala I Satija

This paper reviews the 1994 proof that the spectral gap of Hamiltonian quantum systems capable of universal computation is uncomputable.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-19 Seth Lloyd

Topological phases have been extensively studied primarily in crystalline systems with translational symmetry. Recent theoretical studies, however, have demonstrated the existence of topological phases in quasicrystals that are absent in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Mou Yan , Yu-Liang Tao , Yichong Hu , Zhenxing Cui , Jiong-Hao Wang , Gang Chen , Yong Xu

The paper is concerned with the number of open gaps in spectra of periodic quantum graphs. The well-known conjecture by Bethe and Sommerfeld (1933) says that the number of open spectral gaps for a system periodic in more than one direction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Pavel Exner , Ondřej Turek