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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

Quasicrystal is now open to search for novel topological phenomena enhanced by its peculiar structure characterized by an irrational number and high-dimensional primitive vectors. Here we extend the concept of a topological insulator with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-02 Rasoul Ghadimi , Takanori Sugimoto , Takami Tohyama

We present a new simple and easy-to-implement one-dimensional phononic system whose spectrum exactly corresponds to the Hofstadter butterfly when a parameter is modulated. The system consists of masses that are coupled by linear springs and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Bryn Davies , Lorenzo Morini

I revisit the problem of a charged particle on a two-dimensional lattice immersed in a constant (electro)magnetic field, and discuss the energy spectrum - Hofstadter's butterfly - from a new, quantum field theoretical perspective. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-30 G. Endrodi

When subjected to a strong magnetic field, electrons on a two-dimensional lattice acquire a fractal energy spectrum called Hofstadter's butterfly. In addition to its unique recursive structure, the Hofstadter butterfly is intimately linked…

Topological quantum phases underpin many concepts of modern physics. While the existence of disorder-immune topological edge states of electrons usually requires magnetic fields, direct effects of magnetic field on light are very weak. As a…

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 discuss the relationship between the quantum Hall conductance and a fractal energy band structure, Hofstadter's butterfly, on a square lattice under a magnetic field. At first, we calculate the Hall conductance of Hofstadter's butterfly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-05 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

We have developed a different quantum transfer matrix method to accurately determine thermodynamic properties of the Hofstadter model. This method resolves a technical problem which is intractable by other methods and makes the calculation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 W. H. Xu , L. P. Yang , M. P. Qin , T. Xiang

We use microscopic Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism to explore the ground-state phase diagram of the single-band attractive Hofstadter-Hubbard model on a square lattice. We show that the interplay between the Hofstadter butterfly and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-14 M. Iskin

Quantum systems with Hofstadter's butterfly spectrum are of fundamental interest to many research areas. Based upon slight modifications of existing cold-atom experiments, a cold-atom realization of quantum maps with Hofstadter's butterfly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiao Wang , Jiangbin Gong

Hierarchical sets such as the Pythagorean triplets ($\cal{PT}$) and the integral Apollonian gaskets ($\cal{IAG}$) are iconic mathematical sets made up of integers that resonate with a wide spectrum of inquisitive minds. Here we show that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-16 Indubala Satija

We are interested in the experimental characterization of the Hofstadter butterfly by means of acoustical waves. The transmission of an acoustic pulse through an array of 60 variable and resonant scatterers periodically distribued along a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Olivier Richoux , Vincent Pagneux

We point out that the recent conjectural solution to the spectral problem for the Hamiltonian $H=e^{x}+e^{-x}+e^{p}+e^{-p}$ in terms of the refined topological invariants of a local Calabi-Yau geometry has an intimate relation with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Hosho Katsura , Yuji Tachikawa

This work investigates the coexistence of distinct topologically ordered phases within a single setup. We demonstrate this concept through tensor network simulations of the Hofstadter-Bose-Hubbard model under a spatially modulated chemical…

We study the non-Hermitian Hofstadter dynamics of a quantum particle with biased motion on a square lattice in the background of a magnetic field. We show that in quasi-momentum space the energy spectrum is an overlap of infinitely many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-14 M. N. Chernodub , Stephane Ouvry

Motivated by recent experimental breakthroughs in realizing hyperbolic lattices in superconducting waveguides and electric circuits, we compute the Hofstadter butterfly on regular hyperbolic tilings. By utilizing large hyperbolic lattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Alexander Stegmaier , Lavi K. Upreti , Ronny Thomale , Igor Boettcher

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 study an energy spectrum of electron moving under the constant magnetic field in two dimensional noncommutative space. It take place with the gauge invariant way. The Hofstadter butterfly diagram of the noncommutative space is calculated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hidenori Takahashi , Masanori Yamanaka

The trans-series completion of perturbative series of a wide class of quantum mechanical systems can be determined by combining the resurgence program and extra input coming from exact WKB analysis. In this paper, we reexamine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Jie Gu , Zhaojie Xu