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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

We investigate the properties of a two-dimensional quasicrystal in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. In this configuration, the density of states (DOS) displays a Hofstadter butterfly-like structure when it is represented as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Duc-Thanh Tran , Alexandre Dauphin , Nathan Goldman , Pierre Gaspard

We investigate the thermodynamics of model systems exhibiting two-scale fractal spectra. In particular, we present both analytical and numerical studies on the temperature dependence of the vibrational and electronic specific heats. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. O. Vallejos , C. Anteneodo

We propose that Hofstadter's butterfly accompanied by quantum Hall effect that is similar to those predicted to occur in 3D tight-binding systems by Koshino {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 1062 (2001)] can be realized in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

In this paper we present an extensive study of the thermodynamic properties of the two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice; the problem is tackled by the pure-quantum self-consistent harmonic approximation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alessandro Cuccoli , Valerio Tognetti , Ruggero Vaia , Paola Verrucchi

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

Motivated by recent realizations of two-dimensional (2D) superconducting-qubit lattices, we propose a protocol to simulate Hofstadter butterfly with synthetic gauge fields in superconducting circuits. Based on the existing 2D…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Wei Feng , Dexi Shao , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Qi-Ping Su , Jun-Xiang Zhang , Chui-Ping Yang

We show that, for fermionic atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice, the fraction of atoms in doubly occupied sites is a highly non-monotonic function of temperature. We demonstrate that this property persists even in the presence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-30 V. L. Campo , K. Capelle , C. Hooley , J. Quintanilla , V. W. Scarola

Integral Apollonian packing, the packing of circles with integer curvatures, where every circle is tangent to three other mutually tangent circles, is shown to encode the fractal structure of the energy spectrum of two-dimensional Bloch…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-13 Indubala I Satija

We review the properties of reduced density matrices for free fermionic or bosonic many-particle systems in their ground state. Their basic feature is that they have a thermal form and thus lead to a quasi-thermodynamic problem with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ingo Peschel , Viktor Eisler

We study, within the Hartree approximation, the effects of the electron-electron interaction on the energy spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field and a lateral superlattice potential with…

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

The dc conductance and the Hall voltage of planar arrays of interconnected quantum wires are calculated numerically. Our systems are derived from finite patches of aperiodic graphs, with completely symmetric scatterers placed on their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe Grimm , Florian Gagel , Michael Schreiber

We examine the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg magnet on four three-dimensional lattices - simple-cubic, diamond, pyrochlore, and hyperkagome ones - for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic signs of the exchange interaction in order to illustrate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 T. Krokhmalskii , T. Hutak , O. Derzhko

In view of promising applications of fractal nanostructures, we analyze the spectra of quantum particles in the Sierpinski carpet and study the non-correlated electron gas in this geometry. We show that the spectrum exhibits scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Alberto Hernando , Miroslav Sulc , Jiri Vanicek

A system presenting fractal structure in its thermodynamical functions is introduced, and it is shown that Tsallis statistics is the correct framework for describing the thermodynamical aspects of such fractal. Its Haussdorf dimension and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Airton Deppman

We discuss eigenstate correlations for ergodic, spatially extended many-body quantum systems, in terms of the statistical properties of matrix elements of local observables. While the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is known to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-11 Amos Chan , Andrea De Luca , J. T. Chalker

We have analytically explored the quantum phenomenon of particle scattering by harmonically trapped Bose and Fermi gases with the short ranged (Fermi-Huang $\delta^3_p$ [1]) interactions among the incident particle and the scatterers. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Ankita Bhattacharya , Samir Das , Shyamal Biswas

The $S=1/2$ hyperkagome-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet allows to study the interplay of geometrical frustration and quantum as well as thermal fluctuations in three dimensions. We use 16 terms of a high-temperature series expansion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-04 Taras Hutak , Taras Krokhmalskii , Jürgen Schnack , Johannes Richter , Oleg Derzhko

Potential applications of quantum dots in the nanotechnology industry make these systems an important field of study in various areas of physics. In particular, thermodynamics has a significant role in technological innovations. With this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Edilberto O. Silva

The Hofstadter energy spectrum of twisted bilayer graphene is found to have recursive higher-order topological properties. We demonstrate that higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) phases, characterized by localized corner states, occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Sun-Woo Kim , Sunam Jeon , Moon Jip Park , Youngkuk Kim