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FIELD
Phys:StringTheory
DATE
Jul 08 (Mon), 2024
TIME
16:00 ~ 17:30
PLACE
1423
SPEAKER
Gu, Jie
HOST
Choi, Sunjin
INSTITUTE
Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University
TITLE
Trans-series for Hofstadter Butterfly
ABSTRACT
The Harper-Hofstadter model is an interesting 2d electron model in a square lattice with a uniform and perpendicular magnetic field, and its energy spectrum as a function of the magnetic field displays an intriguing pattern, known as the Hofstadter's butterfly, which implies very rich non-perturbative structures. Using a surprising connection with supersymmetric field theory and topological string, we write down a conjectural formula of the full energy trans-series which includes all orders instanton corrections when the magnetic flux is 2\pi/Q for natural numbers Q, and we verify our formula with high precision numerical calculations.
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