Covering property of Hofstadter’s butterfly

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 9881-9885

  Ketzmerick, R ^a   Kruse, K ^a   Steinbach, F ^a   Geisel, T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

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EID: 0007099265     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.9881     Document Type: Article

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