Hofstadter's Butterfly Effect Confirmed

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 16:40 in Biology & Nature

Hofstadter's Butterfly, a complex pattern of the energy states of electrons that resembles a butterfly, has appeared in physics textbooks as a theoretical concept of quantum mechanics for nearly 40 years but had never been directly observed - until now.  read more

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