Berry phase, hyperorbits, and the Hofstadter spectrum: Semiclassical dynamics in magnetic Bloch bands

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 7010-7023

  Chang, Ming Che ^a   Niu, Qian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0000930563     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.7010     Document Type: Article

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