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The quantum Hall effect was originally observed in a two-dimensional electron gas forming Landau levels when exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and was later generalized to Chern insulators without net magnetization. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

In disordered two dimensional Chern insulators, a single bulk extended mode is predicted to exist per band, up to a critical disorder strength; all the other bulk modes are localized. This behavior contrasts strongly with topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Udvas Chattopadhyay , Sunil Mittal , Mohammad Hafezi , Y. D. Chong

The interplay between interaction and disorder-induced localization is of fundamental interest. This article addresses localization physics in the fractional quantum Hall state, where both interaction and disorder have nonperturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Songyang Pu , G. J. Sreejith , J. K. Jain

We study the nu=1/3 quantum Hall state in presence of the random disorder. We calculate the topologically invariant Chern number, which is the only quantity known at present to unambiguously distinguish between insulating and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. Sheng , Xin Wan , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang , R. N. Bhatt , F. D. M. Haldane

We propose to realize the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in two-dimensional compensated antiferromagnets without net spin magnetization.} We consider antiferromagnetic MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ as a concrete example. \textcolor{blue}{By breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Wenhao Liang , Jiaqi An , Zeyu Li , Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

The integer quantum Hall state occurs when the Landau levels are fully occupied by the fermions, while the fractional quantum Hall state usually emerges when the Landau level is partially filled by the strongly correlated fermions or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-22 Wei-Wei Luo , Ai-Lei He , Yi-Fei Wang , Yuan Zhou , Chang-De Gong

Random scattering of photons in disordered one-dimensional solids gives rise to an exponential suppression of transmission, which is known as Anderson localization. Here, we experimentally study Anderson localization in a superconducting…

A peculiar feature of the majority of three dimensional topological insulator surface states studied experimentally thus far, namely their particle-hole asymmetry, makes quantum oscillations (Shubnikov de Haas and de Haas van Alphen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Anthony R. Wright

The location of electrons governs phenomena ranging from chemical bonding and electric polarization to the topological classification of band insulators and the emergence of correlated states in quantum matter. While a prescription exists…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Haylen Gerhard , Yifan Wang , Alexander Cerjan , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

We consider a rhombohedral-stacked $N$-layer graphene coupled to a monolayer of Haldane model. We show that high order Dirac points in multilayer graphene can be gapped out by topological proximity effect of the Haldane model layer, leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yuejiu Zhao , Long Zhang , Fu-Chun Zhang

A central property of Chern insulators is the robustness of the topological phase and edge states to impurities in the system. Despite this, Chern number cannot be straightforwardly calculated in the presence of disorder. Recently, work has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-20 Peru d'Ornellas , Ryan Barnett , Derek K. K. Lee

In this paper, the influence of the quasidisorder on a two-dimensional system is studied. We find that there exists a topological phase transition accompanied by a transverse Anderson localization. The topological properties are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-09 Shujie Cheng , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong

The quantum Hall conductance of a disordered two-dimensional gas of non-interacting electrons is re-examined for its integrity against disorder in the limit of no mixing between different Landau levels. The exact one-electron eigenstates of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kumar

We derive the expression for the local Hall conductivity for systems that lack translation symmetry and use it to study the local fluctuations of the Hall signal around disordered patches in magnetic insulators. We find that the regime in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zachariah Addison , Nandini Trivedi

The correlation of topology and disorder has attracted great intention due to appropriate disorder could induce the phase transition between trivial and nontrivial topological states. While it is widely recognized that strong disorder can…

The study of topological property of band insulators is an interesting branch of condensed matter physics. Two types of topologically nontrivial insulators have been extensively studied. The first type is characterized by a nonzero TKNN…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-15 Yi-Dong Wu

Identification of a non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ index in a spinful two dimensional insulator indicates the presence of an odd, quantized (pseudo)spin-resolved Chern number, $C_{s}=(C_{\uparrow}-C_{\downarrow})/2$. However, the statement is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Alexander C. Tyner

We theoretically investigate the localization mechanism of quantum anomalous Hall Effect (QAHE) with large Chern numbers $\mathcal{C}$ in bilayer graphene and magnetic topological insulator thin films, by applying either nonmagnetic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Hui Yang , Junjie Zeng , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

Here we study the instabilities of a quadratic band crossing system to Chern insulating states and uncorrelated disorder. We determined the phase diagram in the plane of topological mass versus disorder strength, characterizing the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-19 Nicolau Sobrosa , Miguel Gonçalves , Eduardo V. Castro

We theoretically investigate the localization mechanism of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in the presence of spin-flip disorders. We show that the QAHE keeps quantized at weak disorders, then enters a Berry-curvature mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhenhua Qiao , Ke Wang , Lei Zhang , Yulei Han , Xinzhou Deng , Hua Jiang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Jian Wang , Qian Niu