Butterfly in the quantum world : the story of the most fascinating quantum fractal /

Butterfly in the Quantum World is the first book ever to tell the story of the "Hofstadter butterfly", a beautiful and fascinating graph lying at the heart of the quantum theory of matter. The butterfly came out of a simple-sounding question: What happens if you immerse a crystal in a magn...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Satija, Indubala I., 1952- (Author), Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Series:	IOP (Series). Release 3. IOP concise physics.
Subjects:	Fractals. Mathematical physics. Quantum theory. SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational. SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism. SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory. Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism. Electronic books.
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