Title: Exact diagonalization of cubic lattice models in commensurate Abelian magnetic fluxes and translational invariant non-Abelian potentials,
Abstract: We present a general analytical formalism to determine the energy spectrum of
a quantum particle in a cubic lattice subject to translationally invariant
commensurate magnetic fluxes and in the presence of a general space-independent
non-Abelian gauge potential. We first review and analyze the case of purely
Abelian potentials, showing also that the so-called Hasegawa gauge yields a
decomposition of the Hamiltonian into sub-matrices having minimal dimension.
Explicit expressions for such matrices are derived, also for general
anisotropic fluxes. Later on, we show that the introduction of a translational
invariant non-Abelian coupling for multi-component spinors does not affect the
dimension of the minimal Hamiltonian blocks, nor the dimension of the magnetic
Brillouin zone. General formulas are presented for the U(2) case and explicit
examples are investigated involving $\pi$ and $2\pi/3$ magnetic fluxes.
Finally, we numerically study the effect of random flux perturbations.