A study of the ambiguity in the solutions to the Diophantine equation for Chern numbers

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Volumn , Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Avron, J E ^a   Kenneth, O ^a   Yehoshua, G ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diophantine equations; Hofstadter model; quantum Hall phase diagrams; window conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905733906     PISSN: 17518113     EISSN: 17518121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/47/18/185202     Document Type: Article

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