Hofstadter’s Butterfly Lands at Last – A 50-Year Quantum Mystery Solved
Scientists at Princeton University have made a groundbreaking discovery in quantum materials, revealing that electron energy ...
Hofstadter's butterfly: Quantum fractal patterns visualized
Hofstadter's butterfly represents the principal finding of a seminal ... discovered that electrons confined to these moiré crystals superconduct— a state in which electrons flow freely without any ...
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Quantum fractal pattern predicted 50 years ago observed in the lab
Researchers observed a long-predicted fractal energy pattern in twisted carbon materials, confirming quantum theories.
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Physicists capture a strange fractal ‘butterfly’ for the first time
The electrons in a twisted piece of graphene show a strange repeating pattern first predicted in 1976, but never directly ...
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Manchester scientists caught Hofstadter’s butterfly in one of the most ancient materials on Earth
The most fascinating result is the observation of a 2.5-dimensional mixing of the surface and bulk states in graphite, which manifests itself in a new type of fractal quantum Hall effect – a 2.5D ...