Hofstadter butterflies in nonlinear Harper lattices, and their optical realizations

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Manela, Ofer ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b   Kip, Detlef ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCH ELECTRONS; COLD ATOMS; DISORDERED LATTICES; EIGEN MODES; HARPER MODEL; HOFSTADTER; LINEAR MODES; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR EIGENMODES; NONLINEAR MODE; NONLINEAR SPECTRUM; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL REALIZATION; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; QUASIPERIODIC SYSTEMS; TRANSITION PROCESS; ULTRA-COLD; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; HALL EFFECT;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 77952722097     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/5/053017     Document Type: Article

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