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Hofstadter's butterfly
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English
Alternative forms
en Hofstadter butterfly
Etymology
The fractal nature of the spectrum was discovered in 1976 by Douglas Hofstadter.
Noun
en physics A graph of the spectral properties of non-interacting two-dimensional electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field in a lattice.
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