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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

The mobility edge (ME) that marks the energy separating extended and localized states is a central concept in understanding the metal-insulator transition induced by disordered or quasiperiodic potentials. MEs have been extensively studied…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-25 Yucheng Wang , Long Zhang , Yuhao Wan , Yu He , Yongjian Wang

We consider a tight-binding model recently introduced by Timmel and Mele for strained moir\'e heterostructures. We consider two honeycomb lattices to which layer antisymmetric shear strain is applied to periodically modulate the tunneling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Simon Becker , Lingrui Ge , Jens Wittsten

Electrons moving through a spatially periodic lattice potential develop a quantized energy spectrum consisting of discrete Bloch bands. In two dimensions, electrons moving through a magnetic field also develop a quantized energy spectrum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 C. R. Dean , L. Wang , P. Maher , C. Forsythe , F. Ghahari , Y. Gao , J. Katoch , M. Ishigami , P. Moon , M. Koshino , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , K. L. Shepard , J. Hone , P. Kim

The mobility edge (ME) is a crucial concept in understanding localization physics, marking the critical transition between extended and localized states in the energy spectrum. Anderson localization scaling theory predicts the absence of ME…

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…

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 mobility edges (MEs) in energy which separate extended and localized states are a central concept in understanding the localization physics. In one-dimensional (1D) quasiperiodic systems, while MEs may exist for certain cases, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-10 Yucheng Wang , Xu Xia , Long Zhang , Hepeng Yao , Shu Chen , Jiangong You , Qi Zhou , Xiong-Jun Liu

The mobility edge (ME) is a fundamental concept in the Anderson localized systems, which marks the energy separating extended and localized states. Although the ME and localization phenomena have been extensively studied in non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-10 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Zhende Liu , Yayun Hu , Lei Pan

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…

Topological bandstructures interfering with moir\'e superstructures give rise to a plethora of emergent phenomena, which are pivotal for correlated insulating and superconducting states of twisttronics materials. While quasiperiodicity was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Tobias Herrig , Christina Koliofoti , Jedediah H. Pixley , Elio J. König , Roman-Pascal Riwar

Fractal electronic spectra arising from the competition between lattice periodicity and magnetic flux are a fundamental hallmark of two-dimensional quantum systems. While the spectral properties of Hofstadter butterflies are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Natalia Cortés , Bastian Castorene , Francisco J. Peña , Damian Melo , Sergio E. Ulloa , Patricio Vargas

Quasiperiodic models are important physical platforms to explore Anderson transitions in low dimensional systems, yet the exact mobility edges (MEs) are generally hard to be determined analytically. To date, the MEs in only a few models can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-29 Hai-Tao Hu , Yang Chen , Xiaoshui Lin , Ai-Min Guo , Zijing Lin , Ming Gong

The mobility edge (ME) is a critical energy delineates the boundary between extended and localized states within the energy spectrum, and it plays a crucial role in understanding the metal-insulator transition in disordered or quasiperiodic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-04 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Weilei Zeng , Yayun Hu , Peng Liu

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

Moir\'e superlattices with long-range periodicity exhibit Hofstadter energy spectra under accessible magnetic fields, enabling the exploration of emergent quantum phenomena through a hierarchy of fractal states. However, higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Wenqing Song , Yicheng Mou , Qing Lan , Guorui Zhao , Zejing Guo , Jiaqi Liu , Tuoyu Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Wu Shi

We propose a disorder-free one-dimensional single-particle Hamiltonian hosting an exact mobility edge (ME), placing the system outside the assumptions of no-go theorems regarding unbounded potentials. By applying a linear Stark potential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-01 Yunyao Qi , Heng Lin , Quanfeng Lu , Dong Ruan , Gui-Lu Long

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

We present a multiple scattering analysis of robust interface states for flexural waves in thin elastic plates. We show that finite clusters of linear arrays of scatterers built on a quasi-periodic arrangement support bounded modes in the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Marc Martí-Sabaté , Dani Torrent

We study localization driven solely by interparticle interactions in moir\'e lattice systems without intrinsic disorder or externally imposed quasiperiodic potentials. We consider a one-dimensional bilayer with incommensurate lattice…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Yan-Hao Yang , Zhihao Xu , Lei Ying , Qizhong Zhu
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