Phase Diagram of the Dissipative Hofstadter Model

Abstract

The dissipative quantum mechanics of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field and periodic potential has delocalization critical points which correspond to backgrounds for the open string. We study the phase diagram of this system (in the magnetic field/dissipation constant plane) and find a fractal structure which, in the limit of zero dissipation, matches the fractal energy level structure of the pure quantum mechanical version of this problem (Hofstadter model).