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Elucidating the physics of the single-orbital Hubbard model in its intermediate coupling regime is a key missing ingredient to our understanding of metal-insulator transitions in real materials. Using recent non-perturbative many-body…

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The model of local Turing machines is introduced, including classical and quantum ones, in the framework of matrix-product states. The locality refers to the fact that at any instance of the computation the heads of a Turing machine have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Dong-Sheng Wang

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

A consistent device model to describe current-voltage characteristics of metal/insulator/metal systems is developed. In this model the insulator and the metal electrodes are described within the same theoretical framework by using density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Neumann , Y. A. Genenko , C. Melzer , H. von Seggern

Many body localization (MBL) represents a unique physical phenomenon, providing a testing ground for exploring thermalization, or more precisely its failure. Here we characterize the MBL regime geometrically by the many-body quantum metric…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 W. N. Faugno , Tomoki Ozawa

The nature of a metal-insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al [1], is examined. We attribute this phenomenon to a splitting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

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

We focus on using an architecture similar to the $\beta$-Variational Autoencoder ($\beta$-VAE) to discriminate if a quantum state is entangled or separable based on measurements. We split the data into two sets, the set of local and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Nahum Sá , Itzhak Roditi

Nonlinear topological insulators have garnered substantial recent attention as they have both enabled the discovery of new physics due to interparticle interactions, and may have applications in photonic devices such as topological lasers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Stephan Wong , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

As a measure to ascertain whether a system is metallic or insulating, localization length $\lambda_N$, which represents the spread of electron distribution, can be a useful quantity, especially for approaching a metal-insulator transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-31 Shun Tamura , Yokoyama Hisatoshi

The topological phases of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric insulators are classified by a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological invariant. Usually, the invariant is introduced and calculated by exploiting the way time-reversal symmetry acts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

Ternary semiconducting or metallic half-Heusler compounds with an atomic composition 1:1:1 are widely studied for their flexible electronic properties and functionalities. Recently, a new material property of half-Heusler compounds was…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-28 Binghai Yan , Anne de Visser

Several new aspects of the subtle interplay between electronic correlations and disorder are reviewed. First, the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT)together with the geometrically averaged ("typical") local density of states is employed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 K. Byczuk , W. Hofstetter , U. Yu , D. Vollhardt

We consider the combined influence of disorder, electron-electron interactions and quantum hopping on the properties of electronic systems in a localized phase, approaching an insulator-metal transition. The generic models in this regime…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-11 Thomas Vojta , Michael Schreiber

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

The existence of Anderson localization, characterized by vanishing diffusion due to strong disorder, has been demonstrated in numerous ways. A systematic approach based on the Anderson quantum model of the Fermi gas in random lattices that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-26 Václav Janiš

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari

Topological insulators are solid state systems of independent electrons for which the Fermi level lies in a mobility gap, but the Fermi projection is nevertheless topologically non-trivial, namely it cannot be deformed into that of a normal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We consider the two-dimensional topological Chern insulator in the presence of static disorder. Generic quantum states in this system are Anderson localized. However, topology requires the presence of a subset of critical states, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Mateo Moreno-Gonzalez , Johannes Dieplinger , Alexander Altland

We report a numerical analysis of Anderson localization in a model of a doped semiconductor. The model incorporates the disorder arising from the random spatial distribution of the donor impurities and takes account of the electron-electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Yosuke Harashima , Keith Slevin