American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 26(81), p. 5888-5891, 1998
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.81.5888
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We present an extreme localization mechanism induced by a magnetic field for tight-binding electrons in two-dimensional structures. This spectacular phenomenon is investigated for a large class of tilings (periodic, quasiperiodic, or random). We are led to introduce the Aharonov-Bohm cages defined as the set of sites eventually visited by a wavepacket that can, for particular values of the magnetic flux, be bounded. We finally discuss the quantum dynamics which exhibits an original pulsating behaviour. ; Comment: 4 pages Latex, 3 eps figures, 1 ps figure