Floquet topological phase transitions induced by uncorrelated or correlated disorder
Abstract
The impact of weak disorder and its spatial correlation on the topology of a Floquet system is not well understood so far. In this study, we investigate a model closely related to a two-dimensional Floquet system that has been realized in experiments. In the absence of disorder, we determine the phase diagram and identify a new phase characterized by edge states with alternating chirality in adjacent gaps. When weak disorder is introduced, we examine the disorder-averaged Bott index and analyze why the anomalous Floquet topological insulator is favored by both uncorrelated and correlated disorder, with the latter having a stronger effect. For a system with a ring-shaped gap, the Born approximation fails to explain the topological phase transition, unlike for a system with a point-like gap.
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@article{arxiv.2309.07035,
title = {Floquet topological phase transitions induced by uncorrelated or correlated disorder},
author = {Jun-Hui Zheng and Arijit Dutta and Monika Aidelsburger and Walter Hofstetter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07035},
year = {2024}
}
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6+3 pages, 3 + 2 figures