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A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

We study the dimensional dependence of the interplay between correlation and disorder in two dimension at half filling using 2D $t-t'$ disordered Hubbard model with deterministic disorder both at zero and finite temperatures. Inclusion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Tribikram Gupta , Sanjay Gupta

It is well established that for non-interacting electrons, increasing disorder drives a metal into a gapless localized Anderson insulator. While in three dimensions a threshold in disorder must be crossed for the transition, in two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Elias Lahoud , O. Nganba Meetei , K. B. Chaska , A Kanigel , Nandini Trivedi

Under certain symmetries, degenerate points in three-dimensional metals form one-dimensional nodal lines. These nodal lines sometimes exhibit intricate knotted structures and have been studied in various contexts. As one of the most common…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Ming Gong , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , Qian Niu , X. C. Xie

We investigate disorder-driven topological phase transitions in quantized electric quadrupole insulators. We show that chiral symmetry can protect the quantization of the quadrupole moment $q_{xy}$, such that the higher-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Chang-An Li , Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

Topologically protected gapless edge/surface states are phases of quantum matter which behave as massless Dirac fermions, immunizing against disorders and continuous perturbations. Recently, a new class of topological insulators (TIs) with…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-30 Baizhan Xia , Shengjie Zheng , Liang Tong , Junrui Jiao , Guiju Duan , Dejie Yu

Lattice defects such as stacking faults may obscure electronic topological features of real materials. In fact, defects are a source of disorder that can enhance the density of states and conductivity of the bulk of the system and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Gabriele Naselli , Viktor Könye , Sanjib Kumar Das , G. G. N. Angilella , Anna Isaeva , Jeroen van den Brink , Cosma Fulga

Topological insulator (TI) is an exciting discovery because of its robustness against disorder and interactions. Recently, higher-order TIs have been attracting increasing attention, because they host 1D topologically-protected hinge states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Peng-Lu Zhao , Xiao-Bin Qiang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Topological insulators in three dimensions are characterized by a Z2-valued topological invariant, which consists of a strong index and three weak indices. In the presence of disorder, only the strong index survives. This paper studies the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 H. -M. Guo

Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs) possess a specific topological order of electronic bands, resulting in gapless surface states via bulk-edge correspondence. Exotic phenomena have been realized in ferromagnetic TIs, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 Y. Satake , J. Shiogai , G. P. Mazur , S. Kimura , S. Awaji , K. Fujiwara , T. Nojima , K. Nomura , S. Souma , T. Sato , T. Dietl , A. Tsukazaki

Second-order topological insulator (SOTI) is featured with the presence of $(d-2)$-dimensional boundary states in $d$-dimension systems. The non-Hermiticity induced breakdown of bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) and the periodic driving on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-21 Hong Wu , Bao-Qin Wang , Jun-Hong An

We study the effect of strong disorder in a 3-dimensional topological insulators with time-reversal symmetry and broken inversion symmetry. Firstly, using level statistics analysis, we demonstrate the persistence of delocalized bulk states…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-02 Bryan Leung , Emil Prodan

Topological insulators (TI) are a phase of matter that host unusual metallic states on their surfaces. Unlike the states that exist on the surface of conventional materials, these so-called topological surfaces states (TSS) are protected…

A correlated material in the vicinity of an insulator-metal transition (IMT) exhibits rich phenomenology and variety of interesting phases. A common avenue to induce IMTs in Mott insulators is doping, which inevitably leads to disorder.…

The recent discovery of higher-order topological insulators (TIs) has opened new possibilities in the search for novel topological materials and metamaterials. Second-order TIs have been implemented in two-dimensional (2D) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Haoran Xue , Yahui Yang , Guigeng Liu , Fei Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

The effect of strong disorder on chiral-symmetric 3-dimensional lattice models is investigated via analytical and numerical methods. The phase diagrams of the models are computed using the non-commutative winding number, as functions of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-11 Juntao Song , Carolyn Fine , Emil Prodan

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

In this work, we study the disorder effects on the bulk-boundary correspondence of two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We concentrate on two cases: (i) bulk-corner correspondence, (ii) edge-corner correspondence.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-13 Yu-Song Hu , Yue-Ran Ding , Jie Zhang , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Chui-Zhen Chen

Magnetic topological insulators offer a platform to control electronic topology through magnetic order, yet reliable routes to tune their properties remain limited. Here, we show that ion irradiation allows to modify the magnetic and the…

In light of recent progress in the study of amorphous topological phases, we investigate the effects of structural disorder on the topological properties of a two-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulator modeled by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 Ranadeep Roy , Yuan-Ming Lu