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We study the influence of disorder on the topological transition from a two-dimensional Dirac semi-metal to an insulating state. This transition is described as a continuous merging of two Dirac points leading to a semi-Dirac spectrum at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko , Edmond Orignac

We analyse the topological transition and localization evolution of disordered two dimensional systems with non trivial topology based on bipartite lattices. Chern insulators with broken time reversal symmetry show non standard behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Eduardo V. Castro , M. Pilar López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

The extent to which disorder influences the properties of topological semimetals remains an open question and is relevant to both the understanding of topological states and the use of topological materials in practical applications. Here,…

Two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac materials are characterized by a quadratic dispersion in one direction and a linear dispersion along the orthogonal direction. We study the topological phase transition in such 2D systems in the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-01 Kush Saha

Semi-Dirac materials in 2D present an anisotropic dispersion relation, linear along one direction and quadratic along the perpendicular one. This study explores the topological properties and the influence of disorder in a 2D semi-Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Marta García Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina

We discuss the effects of disorder in time-reversal invariant topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions. For three-dimensional topological insulator in symplectic (AII) symmetry class, the phase diagram in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shinsei Ryu , Kentaro Nomura

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

Effects of disorder on two-dimensional Z2 topological insulator are studied numerically by the transfer matrix method. Based on the scaling analysis, the phase diagram is derived for a model of HgTe quantum well as a function of disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura , Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yoshio Kuramoto

Two-dimensional Dirac semimetals with a single massless Dirac cone exhibit the parity anomaly. Usually, such a kind of anomalous topological semimetallic phase in real materials is unstable where any amount of disorder can drive it into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Zhen Ning , Xianyong Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

We study the two-dimensional disordered topological superconductor with Hubbard interactions. When the magnitude of the pairing potential is tuned to special values, this interacting model is exactly solvable even when disorders are imposed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-22 Yiting Deng , Yan He

The parity anomalous semimetal is a topological state of matter characterized by its semi-metallic nature and a quantum Hall conductance of one-half $e^{2}/h$ ($e$ is the elementary charge and $h$ is the Planck constant). Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Shi-Hao Bi , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

We numerically investigate the topological phase transition induced purely by disorder in a spring-mass chain. We employ two types of disorders - chiral and random types - to explore the interplay between topology and disorder. By tracking…

Two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac materials feature a unique anisotropic band structure characterized by quadratic dispersion along one spatial direction and linear dispersion along the other, effectively hybridizing ordinary and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Xin Chen , Jian-Tong Hou , Long Liang , Jie Lu , Hong Guo , Chang-Xu Yan , Hao-Ran Chang

Two-dimensional non-interacting fermions without any anti-unitary symmetries generically get Anderson localized in the presence of disorder. In contrast, topological superconductors with their inherent particle-hole symmetry can host a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Subrata Pachhal , Naba P. Nayak , Soumya Bera , Adhip Agarwala

The interplay among topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity can induce some exotic topological and localization phenomena. Here we investigate this interplay in a two-dimensional non-Hermitian disordered Chern-insulator model with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Ling-Zhi Tang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

In order to manipulate the properties of graphene, its very important to understand the electronic structure in presence of disorder. We investigate, within a tight-binding description, the effects of disorder in the on-site (diagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 Aftab Alam , Biplab Sanyal , Abhijit Mookerjee

We show that a semi-Dirac (SD) system with an inversion symmetry breaking mass exhibits a topological phase transition when irradiated with off-resonant light. Using Floquet theory, we derive the band structure, Chern numbers, phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Vassilios Vargiamidis , P. Vasilopoulos , Neophytos Neophytou

Strong directional disorder in local magnetic moments coupled to a Chern insulator gives rise to topological phases that cannot be continuously connected to the clean limit and are therefore genuinely disorder-driven. We demonstrate this in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Devesh Vaish , Michael Potthoff

Higher-order nodal line semimetals represent a recently proposed topological semimetal class that harbors bulk nodal lines and features gapless hinge Fermi arc excitations, governed by the bulk-hinge correspondence. In this study, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-25 Yue-Ran Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

We explore the interplay of disorder and topological phenomena in honeycomb lattices of atoms coupled by the electromagnetic field. On the one hand, disorder can trigger transitions between distinct topological phases and drive the lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 S. E. Skipetrov , P. Wulles
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