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Layered singlet paired superconductors with disorder and broken time reversal symmetry are studied. The phase diagram demonstrates charge-spin separation in transport. In terms of the average intergrain transmission and the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Kagalovsky , B. Horovitz , Y. Avishai

We study the evolutions of the nonmagnetic disorder-induced edge states with the disorder strength in the HgTe/CdTe quantum wells. From the supercell band structures and wave-functions, it is clearly shown that the conducting helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 Liang Chen , Qin Liu , Xulin Lin , Xiaogang Zhang , Xunya Jiang

We study three dimensional generalizations of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. Unlike two dimensions, where the QSH effect is distinguished by a single $Z_2$ topological invariant, in three dimensions there are 4 invariants…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

We investigate the effect of disorder on topologically nontrivial states in a two dimension (2D) mechanical system. We first propose a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator based on an out-of-plane spring-mass model and analytically study the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Xiaotian Shi , Rajesh Chaunsali , Georgios Theocharis , Huaqing Huang , Rui Zhu , Jinkyu Yang

We study the phase diagram of the inverted InAs/GaSb bilayer quantum wells. For small tunneling amplitude between the layers, we find that the system is prone to formation of an s-wave exciton condensate phase, where the spin-structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. I. Pikulin , T. Hyart

Topologically protected edge channels show prospects for quantum devices. They have been found experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), weak topological insulators and higher-order topological insulators…

We investigate the properties of a three-leg quantum spin tube using several techniques such as the density matrix renormalization group method, strong coupling approaches and the non linear sigma model. For integer spins S, the model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-03-01 D. Charrier , S. Capponi , M. Oshikawa , P. Pujol

The quantum spin hall (QSH) phase, also known as the 2D topological insulator, is characterized by protected helical edge modes arising from time reversal symmetry. While initially proposed for band insulators, this phase can also manifest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang , Chao Xu

We demonstrate the existance of ferrimagnetic and ferromagnetic phases in a spin phase diagram of coupled lateral quantum dot molecules in the quantum Hall regime. The spin phase diagram is determined from Hartree-Fock Configuration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ramin M. Abolfath , Pawel Hawrylak

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

We investigate the disorder-driven phase transition from a fractional quantum Hall state to an Anderson insulator using quantum entanglement methods. We find that the transition is signaled by a sharp increase in the sensitivity of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Zhao Liu , R. N. Bhatt

We investigate the behavior of spin polarized currents in two-dimensional topological insulators (TI). Stationary solutions inside a HgTe/CdTe quantum well (QW) were obtained by Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang (BHZ) model modified by a electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Davidson R. Viana , Thiago M. Melo , Jakson M. Fonseca , Daniel S. Souza , Winder A. Moura-Melo , Afranio R. Pereira

Fundamental insight into the nature of the quantum phase transition from a superconductor to an insulator in two dimensions, or from one plateau to the next or to an insulator in quantum Hall effect, has been revealed through the study of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Cui-Zu Chang , Weiwei Zhao , Jian Li , J. K. Jain , Chaoxing Liu , Jagadeesh. S. Moodera , Moses H. W. Chan

In this paper we study the phase diagram of a disordered, spin-orbit coupled superconductor with $s$-wave or $d+id$-wave pairing symmetry in symmetry class $D$. We analyze the topological phase transitions by applying three different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-22 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

We study nonlocal resistance in an H-shaped two-dimensional HgTe/CdTe quantum well consist of injector and detector, both of which can be tuned in the quantum spin Hall or metallic spin Hall regime. Because of strong spin-orbit interaction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun

It has been proposed that disorder may lead to a new type of topological insulator, called topological Anderson insulator (TAI). Here we examine the physical origin of this phenomenon. We calculate the topological invariants and density of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Yan-Yang Zhang , Rui-Lin Chu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

We describe how the three-dimensional quantum spin Hall phase arises from the insulator phase by changing an external parameter. In 3D systems without inversion symmetry, a gapless phase should appear between the two phases with a bulk gap.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-14 Shuichi Murakami , Shun-ichi Kuga

We review low and high field magnetotransport in 80 nm-thick strained HgTe, a material that belongs to the class of strong three-dimensional topological insulators. Utilizing a top gate, the Fermi level can be tuned from the valence band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Johannes Ziegler , Dmitriy A. Kozlov , Nikolay N. Mikhailov , Sergey A. Dvoretsky , Dieter Weiss

The exploration of topological phases remains a cutting-edge research frontier, driven by their promising potential for next-generation electronic and quantum technologies. In this work, we employ first-principles calculations and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Sibin Lü , Jun Hu

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari