Two-dimensional Bloch electrons in perpendicular magnetic fields: An exact calculation of the Hofstadter butterfly spectrum
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S. Janecek,1,2,3,4,* M. Aichinger,3,5 and E. R. Hernández1,2 1Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM–CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain 2Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB–CSIC), Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain 3Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Altenberger Strasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria 4MathConsult GmbH, Altenberger Strasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria 5Uni Software Plus GmbH, Kreuzstrasse 15a, A-4040 Linz, Austria (Received 9 March 2013; published 25 June 2013)
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