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Topological insulators have been extended to higher-order versions that possess topological hinge or corner states in lower dimensions. However, their robustness against disorder is still unclear. Here, we theoretically investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yedi Shen , Zeyu Li , Qian Niu , Zhenhua Qiao

Superconductivity on the surface of topological insulators is known to be anisotropic and unconventional in that the symmetry is the mixture of s-wave and nodeless p-wave component. In contrast to Anderson's theorem for the insensitivity of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-18 Yuto Ito , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

Abstract: Using ab initio calculations supported by experimental transport measurements, we present the first credible candidate for the realization of a disorder-induced Topological Anderson Insulator in a real material system. High energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-29 Binayak Mukherjee , Eleonora Isotta , Narges Ataollahi , Paolo Scardi

The role of disorder in the field of three-dimensional time reversal invariant topological insulators has become an active field of research recently. However, the computation of Z2 invariants for large, disordered systems still poses a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Björn Sbierski , Piet W. Brouwer

We show that fully-localized, three-dimensional, time-reversal-symmetry-broken insulators do not belong to a single phase of matter but can realize topologically distinct phases that are labelled by integers. The phase transition occurs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Bastien Lapierre , Titus Neupert , Luka Trifunovic

We study the disorder effect on the transport properties in the HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum wells. We confirm that at a moderate disorder strength, the initially un-quantized two terminal conductance becomes quantized, and the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua Jiang , Lei Wang , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We study the properties of the spinor wavefunction in a strongly disordered environment on a two-dimensional lattice. By employing a transfer-matrix calculation we find that there is a transition from delocalized to localized states at a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-09 A. Hill , K. Ziegler

We study the stability against disorder of surface states of weak $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulators (superconductors) which are stacks of strong $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulators (superconductors), considering representative Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki

We consider weak topological insulators with a twofold rotation symmetry around the dark direction, and show that these systems can be endowed with the topological crystalline structure of a higher-order topological insulator protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Sander H. Kooi , Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

The method proposed by the present authors to deal analytically with the problem of Anderson localization via disorder [J.Phys.: Condens. Matter {\bf 14} (2002) 13777] is generalized for higher spatial dimensions D. In this way the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Kuzovkov , W. von Niessen

Disorder has appeared as one of the main mechanisms to induce topologically trivial zero-energy states in superconductor-semiconductor systems, thereby challenging the detection of topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-05 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Martin Leijnse , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

The celebrated Kitaev chain reveals a captivating phase diagram in the presence of various disorders, encompassing multifractal states and topological Anderson phases. In this work, we investigate the localization and topological properties…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-10 Jinkun Wang , Sigma-Jun Lu , Mei Xiang , Wu-Ming Liu

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the topological Anderson insulator and research interest on the topological quasicrystal lattices, we investigate the effects of disorder on topological properties of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

The conducting states, recently discovered at the surface of two special class of insulators -- topological insulators and topological crystalline insulators - are distinguished by their insensitivity to local and non-magnetic surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-01 Evgeny Plekhanov , Cedric Weber

While insensitive to weak non magnetic disorder, an s-wave superconductor can be driven insulating by strong disorder. Using a scheme that captures the correct ground state, and fully retains thermal amplitude and phase fluctuations, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Sabyasachi Tarat , Pinaki Majumdar

The phase diagram of correlated, disordered electrons is calculated within dynamical mean--field theory using the geometrically averaged (''typical'') local density of states. Correlated metal, Mott insulator and Anderson insulator phases,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Krzysztof Byczuk , Walter Hofstetter , Dieter Vollhardt

Features of a topological phase, and edge states in particular, may be obscured by overlapping in energy with a trivial conduction band. The topological nature of such a conductor, however, is revealed in its transport properties,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Alexandra Junck , Kun W. Kim , Doron L. Bergman , T. Pereg-Barnea , Gil Refael

We examine the emergence of topological Anderson insulating phases in the spinful Haldane model with Hubbard and next-neighbor density-density interactions, subject to Anderson disorder. Using finite-size exact diagonalization, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alejandro J. Uría-Álvarez , Roser Valentí

The Anderson localization problem in one and two dimensions is solved analytically via the calculation of the generalized Lyapunov exponents. This is achieved by making use of signal theory. The phase diagram can be analyzed in this way. In…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Kuzovkov , W. von Niessen , V. Kashcheyevs , O. Hein

The Anderson model for independent electrons in a disordered potential is transformed analytically and exactly to a basis of random extended states leading to a variant of augmented space. In addition to the widely-accepted phase diagrams…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Nigel Goldenfeld , Roger Haydock