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Topological insulators are a novel state of matter that share a common feature: their spectral bands are associated with a nonlocal integer-valued index, commonly manifesting through quantized bulk phenomena and robust boundary effects. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ioannis Petrides , Oded Zilberberg

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

Two-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk and conductive edge states protected by the nontrivial topology of the bulk electronic structure. They remain robust against moderate disorder until Anderson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Roberta Favata , Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

We studied effects of disorder in a three dimensional layered Chern insulator. By calculating the localization length and density of states numerically, we found two distict types of metallic phases between Anderson insulator and Chern…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-12 Shang Liu , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

The Anderson delocalization-localization transition is studied in multilayered systems with randomly placed interlayer bonds of density $p$ and strength $t$. In the absence of diagonal disorder (W=0), following an appropriate perturbation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Evangelou , Shi-Jie Xiong , P. Markov , D. E. Katsanos

Topological insulators are new states of matter in which the topological phase originates from symmetry breaking. Recently, time-reversal invariant topological insulators were demonstrated for classical wave systems, such as acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Yifan Zhu , Yugui Peng , Xudong Fan , Jing Yang , Bin Liang , Xuefeng Zhu , Jianchun Cheng

Localization of electronic states in disordered thin layered systems with b layers is studied within the Anderson model of localization using the transfer-matrix method and finite-size scaling of the inverse of the smallest Lyapunov…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Z. Cerovski , R. K. Brojen Singh , M. Schreiber

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

We present models of topological insulating Hamiltonians exhibiting intrinsic altermagnetic features, protected by combined three-fold or four-fold rotational symmetries with time-reversal. We demonstrate that the spin Chern number serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

We propose a two-dimensional non-Hermitian Chern insulator with inversion symmetry, which is anisotropic and has staggered gain and loss in both x and y directions. In this system, conventional bulk-boundary correspondence holds. The Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

Localization due to disorder has been one of the most intriguing theoretical concepts evolved in condensed matter. Here, we expand the theory of localization by considering two types of disorder at the same time, namely the original…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-03 Mouyang Cheng , Haoxiang Chen , Ji Chen

Commonly, a two-dimensional topological insulator is characterized by non-zero Chern numbers associated with its band structure. In our work, we present the experimental demonstration of an anomalous topological insulator, for which the…

Topological states of matter in disordered systems without translation symmetry have attracted great interest in recent years. These states with topological characters are not only robust against certain disorders, but also can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-08 Dan-Wei Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang

Chern insulators host topologically protected chiral edge currents with quantized conductance characterized by their Chern number. Switching the chirality of a Chern insulator, namely, the direction of the edge current, is highly…

Our previous results [J.Phys.: Condens. Matter 14 (2002) 13777] dealing with the analytical solution of the two-dimensional (2-D) Anderson localization problem due to disorder is generalized for anisotropic systems (two different hopping…

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

The discovery that the band structure of electronic insulators may be topologically non-trivial has unveiled distinct phases of electronic matter with novel properties. Recently, mechanical lattices have been found to have similarly rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , Daniel Hexner , Ari Turner , William T. M. Irvine

We prove that Chern insulators have topologically protected edge states which not only propagate unidirectionally along a straight line boundary, but also swerve around arbitrary-angled corners and geometric imperfections of the material…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Guo Chuan Thiang

Moir\'e semiconductors built on angle-aligned transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a physical realization of the Kondo lattice model, in which one TMD layer is prepared in a Mott insulating state supporting a lattice…

The high-Chern number phases with a Chern number C>1 have been observed in a recent experiment that performed on the topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures, consisting of the alternating magnetic-doped and undoped TI layers. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

The quest for the topological phases of matter in an aperiodic system has been greatly developed recently. Here we investigate the effects of disorder on topological phases of a two-dimensional Ammann-Beenker tiling quasicrystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou