Detection of a Landau band-coupling-induced rearrangement of the Hofstadter butterfly

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Geisler, M C ^a   Smet, J H ^a   Umansky, V ^b   Von Klitzing, K ^a   Naundorf, B ^c   Ketzmerick, R ^d   Schweizer, H ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FERMI LEVEL; HALL EFFECT; HEURISTIC METHODS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; POLYNOMIALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON SYSTEMS; FRACTAL ENERGY; QUANTUM HALL; SPIN HALL CONDUCTION;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 3442882937     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.256801     Document Type: Article

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