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Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy we have measured the response of Dirac electrons in a magnetic field to the presence of a well-defined smoothly varying 1D periodic potential. We find that the lower index Landau level energies reliably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yoshinori Okada , Wenwen Zhou , Chetan. Dhital , D. Walkup , Ying Ran , Z. Wang , Stephen D. Wilson , V. Madhavan

We demonstrate that the electronic spectrum of graphene in a one-dimensional periodic potential will develop a Landau level spectrum when the potential magnitude varies slowly in space. The effect is related to extra Dirac points generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Jianmin Sun , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

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

We study spectra for a 2D electron in the lowest Landau level with randomly distributed, repulsively correlated electric impurities. The lowest energy band reflects an effective magnetic field downshifted by an integer multiple of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , M. L. Horner

The Landau Hamiltonian, describing the behavior of a quantum particle in dimension 2 in a constant magnetic field, is perturbed by a magnetic field with power-like decay at infinity and a similar electric potential. We describe how the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-03 Grigori Rozenblum , Grigory Tashchiyan

The purpose of this paper is to formulate a kinetic theory describing transport properties of electrons in a uniform magnetic field of arbitrary magnitude. Exposing an electronic system to a constant magnetic field quenches its energy bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Kitinan Pongsangangan

The Hofstadter model allows to describe and understand several phenomena in condensed matter such as the quantum Hall effect, Anderson localization, charge pumping, and flat-bands in quasiperiodic structures, and is a rare example of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Pasquale Marra , Valerio Proietti , Xiaobing Sheng

The spectrum of charged particles hopping on a kagome lattice in a uniform transverse magnetic field shows an unusual set of Landau levels at low field. They are unusual in two respects: the lowest Landau levels are paramagnetic so their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yi Xiao , Vincent Pelletier , Paul M. Chaikin , David A. Huse

Flux-energy and angle-energy diagrams for an exact three-dimensional Hamiltonian of the Bloch electron in a uniform magnetic field are analyzed. The dependence of the structure of the diagrams on the direction of the field, the geometry of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bruening , V. V. Demidov , V. A. Geyler

A method, analogous to supersymmetry transformation in quantum mechanics, is developed for a particle in the lowest Landau level moving in an arbitrary potential. The method is applied to two-dimensional potentials formed by Dirac delta…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Z. Gedik , M. Bayindir

The electron correlations in narrow energy bands are examined in framework of the Hubbard model. The single-particle Green function and energy spectrum are obtained in paramagnetic state at half-filling by means of new two-pole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-30 Leonid Didukh , Yuriy Skorenkyy

A monolayer graphene exists in an environment where a uniform magnetic field interacts a spatially modulated magnetic field. The spatially modulated magnetic field could affect Landau levels due to a uniform magnetic field. The modulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-02 J. H. Ho , Y. H. Lai , Y. H. Chiu , M. F. Lin

In this contribution we study the Landau levels arising within the relativistic quantum dynamics of a neutral particle which possesses a permanent magnetic dipole moment interacting with an external electric field. We consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Bakke , C. Furtado

We derive new duality relations that link the energy of configurations associated with a class of soft pair potentials to the corresponding energy of the dual (Fourier-transformed) potential. We apply them by showing how information about…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Torquato , F. H. Stillinger

An effective Hamiltonian approach is used to study the effect of Landau-level mixing on the energy spectrum of electrons in a smooth but random magnetic field B(r) with a finite uniform component B_0. It is found that, as opposed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. C. Chang , M. F. Yang , T. M. Hong

We present a versatile design of freely suspended quantum point contacts with particular large one-dimensional subband quantization energies of up to 10meV. The nanoscale bridges embedding a two-dimensional electron system are fabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 C. Rossler , M. Herz , M. Bichler , S. Ludwig

We study the spectrum and magnetic properties of double quantum dots in the lowest Landau level for different values of the hopping and Zeeman parameters by means of exact diagonalization techniques in systems of N=6 and N=7 electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nuria Barberan , Joan Soto

We formulate non-Hermitian Landau levels in two-dimensional systems under a complex perpendicular magnetic field. In the symmetric gauge, we derive their discretely spaced, highly degenerate complex spectra and biorthogonal eigenstates, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Anton Montag , Tomoki Ozawa

Energy levels are investigated for two charged particles possessing an attractive, momentum-independent, zero-range interaction in a uniform magnetic field. A transcendental equation governs the spectrum, which is characterized by a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Johannes Kirscher , Brian C. Tiburzi

The problem of two-dimensional, independent electrons subject to a periodic potential and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field unveils surprisingly rich physics, as epitomized by the fractal energy spectrum known as Hofstadter's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 S. Janecek , M. Aichinger , E. R. Hernandez