Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1867532 | Physics Letters A | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We study the spectrum of ultracold atoms on the honeycomb lattice under a constant effective magnetic field. In the tight-binding approximation, we derived the generalized Harper's equations and numerically calculate the spectrum, which has a fractal structure. For the cases with and without the next-nearest-neighbor tunneling, the graphs of spectra have different symmetries. Comparing the symmetries of the graphs of spectra, we find that next-nearest-neighbor tunneling induces symmetry breaking of the graph of spectrum.
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Authors
Jing-Min Hou, Wen-Xing Yang,