Evidence of Hofstadter's fractal energy spectrum in the quantized Hall conductance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 147-150

  Albrecht, C ^a   Smet, J H ^a   Von Klitzing, K ^a   Weiss, D ^b   Umansky, V ^c   Schweizer, H ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ENERGY SPECTRUM; HALL CONDUCTANCE; HALL MEASUREMENT; HOFSTADTER FRACTAL ENERGY SPECTRUM; LANDAU BAND;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 17044452210     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.147     Document Type: Article

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