Physicists net fractal butterfly Decades-old search closes in on - TopicsExpress



          

Physicists net fractal butterfly Decades-old search closes in on recursive pattern that describes electron behaviour. After a nearly 40-year chase, physicists have found experimental proof for one of the first fractal patterns known to quantum physics: the Hofstadter butterfly. Named after Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer prizewinning author of the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach, the pattern describes the behaviour of electrons in extreme magnetic fields.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:46:09 +0000

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