Hierarchical Structure of Azbel-Hofstader Problem: Strings and loose ends of Bethe Ansatz

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1997-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9711274v2

Nucl. Phys. B525 [FS] (1998) 571-596

Physics

Condensed Matter

revtex, 30 pages, 6 Figs, 8 postscript files are enclosed, important references are added

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00346-0

We present numerical evidence that solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations for a Bloch particle in an incommensurate magnetic field (Azbel-Hofstadter or AH model), consist of complexes-"strings". String solutions are well-known from integrable field theories. They become asymptotically exact in the thermodynamic limit. The string solutions for the AH model are exact in the incommensurate limit, where the flux through the unit cell is an irrational number in units of the elementary flux quantum. We introduce the notion of the integral spectral flow and conjecture a hierarchical tree for the problem. The hierarchical tree describes the topology of the singular continuous spectrum of the problem. We show that the string content of a state is determined uniquely by the rate of the spectral flow (Hall conductance) along the tree. We identify the Hall conductances with the set of Takahashi-Suzuki numbers (the set of dimensions of the irreducible representations of $U_q(sl_2)$ with definite parity). In this paper we consider the approximation of noninteracting strings. It provides the gap distribution function, the mean scaling dimension for the bandwidths and gives a very good approximation for some wave functions which even captures their multifractal properties. However, it misses the multifractal character of the spectrum.

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