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One-dimensional quasiperiodic systems, such as the Harper model and the Fibonacci quasicrystal, have long been the focus of extensive theoretical and experimental research. Recently, the Harper model was found to be topologically…
We introduce a one-dimensional lattice model whose hopping amplitudes are modulated for equally spaced sites. Such mosaic lattice exhibits many interesting topological and localization phenomena that do not exist in the regular off-diagonal…
We investigate the emergence of nontrivial topology in a twisted cuprate bilayer described by the Hubbard model in the weak-interaction regime. Our results show that the topological character depends sensitively on the doping level. For…
We discuss the question of when a gapped 2D electron system without any symmetry has a protected gapless edge mode. While it is well known that systems with a nonzero thermal Hall conductance, $K_H \neq 0$, support such modes, here we show…
We theoretically study a one-dimensional quasi-periodic Fermi system with topological $p$-wave superfluidity, which can be deduced from a topologically non-trivial tight-binding model on the square lattice in a uniform magnetic field and…
We investigate a non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with short-range, as well as long-range p-wave pairing. Here, the non-Hermiticity is introduced through the onsite potential. A comprehensive analysis of several critical aspects of…
Majorana modes can arise as zero energy bound states in a variety of solid state systems. A two-dimensional phase supporting these quasiparticles, for instance, emerges on the surface of a topological superconductor with the zero modes…
We study one-dimensional lattices with imaginary-valued Aubry-Andre-Harper (AAH) potentials. Such lattices can host edge states with purely imaginary eigenenergies, which differ from the edge states of the Hermitian AAH model and are…
In this study, we investigate the localization transition and quantum criticality {in the ground state of the} disordered Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper (AAH) model, where a quasiperiodic potential is hybridized with a disordered potential. In the…
We construct a one-dimensional (1D) topological SSH-like model with chiral symmetry and a superimposed hopping modulation, which we call the chiral Aubry-Andr\'e model. We show that its topological properties can be described in terms of a…
We investigate the quantum criticality and universality in Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper (AAH) model with $p$-wave superconducting pairing $\Delta$ in terms of the generalized fidelity susceptibility (GFS). We show that the higher-order GFS is…
The triple phase transitions or simultaneous transitions of three different phases, namely topological, parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking, and metal-insulator transitions, are observed in an extension of PT symmetric non-Hermitian…
Localization in non-Hermitian quasicrystals can differ fundamentally from its Hermitian counterpart when non-reciprocity is spatially disordered. Here we study a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper chain with a Bernoulli…
In this paper we discussed the topological transition between trivial and nontrivial phases of a quasi-periodic (Aubry-Andr\'e like) mechanical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. We find that there exists a nontrivial boundary separating the…
We propose an one-dimensional generalized Aubry-Andr{\'e}-Harper (AAH) model with off-diagonal hopping and staggered on-site potential. We find that the localization transitions could be multiple reentrant with the increasing of staggered…
We study non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper models with p-wave pairing, where the non-Hermiticity is introduced by on-site complex quasiperiodic potentials. By analysing the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry breaking, winding numbers of energy…
We introduce a Hamiltonian coupling Majorana fermion degrees of freedom to a quantum dimer model. We argue that, in three dimensions, this model has deconfined quasiparticles supporting Majorana zero modes obeying nontrivial statistics. We…
Quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures emerged as a competitive platform to realize topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge states as shown in recent experiments [He et al. Science {\bf 357}, 294…
Using the recently-proposed ``activation-relaxation technique'' for optimizing complex structures, we develop a structural model appropriate to a-GaAs which is almost free of odd-membered rings, i.e., wrong bonds, and possesses an almost…
We demonstrate that the one-dimensional helical Majorana edges of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors (class DIII) can become gapless and insulating by a combination of random edge velocity and interaction.…