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The transition between many-body localized states and the delocalized thermal states is an eigen-state phase transition at finite energy density outside the scope of conventional quantum statistical mechanics. In this work we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

The three-dimensional topological insulator (originally called "topological insulators") is the first example in nature of a topologically ordered electronic phase existing in three dimensions that cannot be reduced to multiple copies of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 M. Zahid Hasan , David Hsieh , Yuqi Xia , L. Andrew Wray , Su-Yang Xu , Charles L. Kane

Understanding the metal-insulator transition in disordered many-fermion systems, both with and without interactions, is one of the most challenging and consequential problems in condensed matter physics. In this paper we address this issue…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-10-19 Vipin Kerala Varma , Sebastiano Pilati

We study disorder effects in a two-dimensional system with chiral symmetry and find that disorder can induce a quadrupole topological insulating phase (a higher-order topological phase with quadrupole moments) from a topologically trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yan-Bin Yang , Kai Li , L. -M. Duan , Yong Xu

The interplay between electronic correlations and band topology is a central theme in modern condensed matter physics. In this work, we investigate the effects of on-site Hubbard interactions on the topological, magnetic, and quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Abdiel de Jesús Espinosa-Champo , Gerardo G. Naumis

Quantum critical phenomena are widely studied across various materials families, from high temperature superconductors to magnetic insulators. They occur when a thermodynamic phase transition is suppressed to zero temperature as a function…

We propose a new viewpoint on the study of localization transitions in disordered quantum systems, showing how critical properties can be seen also as a geometric transition in the data space generated by the classically encoded…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-16 Carlo Vanoni , Vittorio Vitale

The study of correlation effects in topological phases of matter can benefit from a multidisciplinary approach that combines techniques drawn from condensed matter, high-energy physics and quantum information science. In this work, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-19 E. Tirrito , S. Hands , A. Bermudez

A major challenge in condensed matter physics is integrating topological phenomena with correlated electron physics to leverage both types of states for next-generation quantum devices. Metal-insulator transitions (MITs) are central to…

Recently, the structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between structural disorder and band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Tan Peng , Yong-Chen Xiong , Chun-Bo Hua , Zheng-Rong Liu , Xiaolu Zhu , Wei Cao , Fang Lv , Yue Hou , Bin Zhou , Ziyu Wang , Rui Xiong

The phenomenon of Anderson localization wherein non-interacting electrons are localized by quenched impurities is a subject matter that has been extremely well studied. However, localization transition under the combined influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-24 Shashikant Singh Kunwar , Prabuddha B. Chakraborty , R. Narayanan

The interplay between strong Coulomb interactions and randomness has been a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics. According to the scaling theory of localization, in two-dimensional systems of noninteracting or weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Kravchenko , M. P. Sarachik

We study the tunneling density of states (TDOS) of a disordered electronic system with Coulomb interaction on the insulating side of the Anderson localization transition. The average TDOS shows a critical behavior at high energies, with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 I. S. Burmistrov , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We analyze the effect of disorder on the weak-coupling instabilities of quadratic band crossing point (QBCP) in two-dimensional Fermi systems, which, in the clean limit, display interaction- driven topological insulating phases. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Jing Wang , Carmine Ortix , Jeroen van den Brink , Dmitry V. Efremov

Topological phases of quantum matter defy characterization by conventional order parameters but can exhibit quantized electro-magnetic response and/or protected surface states. We examine such phenomena in a model for three-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 Ara Go , William Witczak-Krempa , Gun Sang Jeon , Kwon Park , Yong Baek Kim

Motivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of two time-reversal-conjugated $\nu=2/3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

In magnetic topological insulators, a phase transition between a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) and an Anderson localization phase can be triggered by the rotation of an applied magnetic field. Without the scattering paths along magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristof Moors , Gen Yin

In two-dimensional topological insulators, a disorder induced topological phase transition is typically identified with an Anderson localization transition at the Fermi energy. However, in higher-order, spin-resolved topological insulators…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-07 Alexander C. Tyner , Cormac Grindall , J. H. Pixley

Two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets are believed to host phases of matter whose excitations are more fundamental than those of the ordered phases. When combining two such spin systems in a bilayer, strong interaction between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-26 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbø

Recent breakthrough on topological Anderson insulators revealed the breakdown of the traditional perception that sufficiently strong disorder may induce the appearance of topological protected transport states instead of destruction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Hui Liu , Boyang Xie , Haonan Wang , Wenwei Liu , Zhancheng Li , Hua Cheng , Jianguo Tian , Zhengyou Liu , Shuqi Chen