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Topological Phase Transitions in the Disordered Haldane Model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-12-29 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the phases and phase transitions of the disordered Haldane model in the presence of on-site disorder. We use the real-space Chern marker and transfer matrices to extract critical exponents over a broad range of parameters. The disorder-driven transitions are consistent with the plateau transitions in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE), in conformity with recent simulations of disordered Dirac fermions. Our numerical findings are compatible with an additional line of mass-driven transitions with a continuously varying correlation length exponent. The values interpolate between free Dirac fermions and the IQHE with increasing disorder strength. We also show that the fluctuations of the Chern marker exhibit a power-law divergence in the vicinity of both sets of transitions, yielding another varying exponent. We discuss the interpretation of these results.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16689,
  title  = {Topological Phase Transitions in the Disordered Haldane Model},
  author = {J. Mildner and M. D. Caio and G. Möller and N. R. Cooper and M. J. Bhaseen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16689},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 48 figures

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