Effects of large disorder on the Hofstadter butterfly

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Zhou, Chenggang ^a,c   Berciu, Mona ^b   Bhatt, R N ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 20044379310     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.125310     Document Type: Article

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