AnSU(2) analogue of the Azbel-Hofstadter Hamiltonian

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/17/007MaRDI QIDQ4391392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emmanuel G. Floratos, Stam Nicolis

Publication date 10 December 1998

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508111

zbMATH Keywords

\(S\)-gap Lamé equationBloch electroncoherent state representationeigenvalue problemquantum symmetryspin-\(S\) Euler toptwo-dimensional magnetic lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: Motivated by recent findings due to Wiegmann and Zabrodin, Faddeev and Kashaev concerning the appearence of the quantum U_q(sl(2)) symmetry in the problem of a Bloch electron on a two-dimensional magnetic lattice, we introduce a modification of the tight binding Azbel--Hofstadter Hamiltonian that is a specific spin-S Euler top and can be considered as its ``classical analog. The eigenvalue problem for the proposed model, in the coherent state representation, is described by the S-gap Lam'e equation and, thus, is completely solvable. We observe a striking similarity between the shapes of the spectra of the two models for various values of the spin S.

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