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Computed the tight-binding spectrum of a crystal electron in a uniform magnetic field and exposed a recursively structured spectrum controlled by magnetic flux per lattice cell.
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The record is Hofstadter's sole-author 1976 Physical Review B paper and its single-band model. It does not absorb earlier magnetic-band work, later experimental observations, quantum Hall measurements or every model now called a Hofstadter butterfly.
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Hofstadter: Bloch-electron spectrum in rational and irrational magnetic fields
Computed the tight-binding spectrum of a crystal electron in a uniform magnetic field and exposed a recursively structured spectrum controlled by magnetic flux per lattice cell.
Scientific scope
The record is Hofstadter's sole-author 1976 Physical Review B paper and its single-band model. It does not absorb earlier magnetic-band work, later experimental observations, quantum Hall measurements or every model now called a Hofstadter butterfly.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.