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Occurrence of topological Anderson insulator (TAI) in HgTe quantum well suggests that when time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is maintained, the pertinent topological phase transition, marked by re-entrant $2e^2/h$ quantized conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ying Su , Y. Avishai , X. R. Wang

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

We propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with nonreciprocal hopping, is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Kai Chen , Alexander B. Khanikaev

We study the localization and topological transitions of the generalized non-Hermitian SSH models, where the non-Hermiticities are introduced by the complex quasiperiodic hopping and the nonreciprocal hopping. We elucidate the universality…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-16 X. Q. Sun , C. S. Liu

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 interplay of topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity gives rise to phenomena beyond the conventional classification of quantum phases. We propose a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with quasiperiodically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 Qi-Bo Zeng , Rong Lü

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

Chern insulators exhibit fascinating properties which originate from the topologically nontrivial state characterized by the Chern number. How these properties change if the system is quenched between topologically distinct phases has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Michael Schüler , Philipp Werner

We introduce two dimensional fermionic band models with two orbitals per lattice site, or one spinful orbital, and which have a non-zero topological Chern number that can be changed by varying the ratio of hopping parameters. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-14 Miguel A. N. Araújo , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro D. Sacramento

We investigate the effect of spatially correlated disorder on two-dimensional topological insulators and on the quantum spin Hall effect which the helical edge states in these systems give rise to. Our work expands the scope of previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-15 A. Girschik , F. Libisch , S. Rotter

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

The non-Hermitian skin effect can arise in materials that have asymmetric hoppings between atoms or resonating units, which makes the bulk eigenspectrum sensitive to boundary conditions. When skin effect emerges, eigenstates in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Yi-Xin Xiao , C. T. Chan

Symmetry-protected spectral topology in non-Hermitian systems has interesting manifestations such as dynamically anomalous chiral currents and skin effect. We study the interplay between symmetries and disorder in a paradigmatic model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Ronika Sarkar , Suraj S. Hegde , Awadhesh Narayan

Non-Hermitian systems as theoretical models of open or dissipative systems exhibit rich novel physical properties and fundamental issues in condensed matter physics.We propose a generalized local-global correspondence between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Annan Fan , Shi-Dong Liang

This paper details the investigation of the influence of different disorders in two-dimensional topological insulator systems. Unlike the phase transitions to topological Anderson insulator induced by normal Anderson disorder, a different…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-01 Juntao Song , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

In two-dimensional topological insulators, a disorder induced topological phase transition is typically identified with an Anderson localization transition at the Fermi energy. However, in higher-order, spin-resolved topological insulators…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-07 Alexander C. Tyner , Cormac Grindall , J. H. Pixley

In the framework of non-Hermitian photonics, we investigate the interplay between disorder and non-Hermiticity in a one-dimensional Hatano-Nelson lattice. While Anderson localization dictates the wave's evolution in conservative random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-20 E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

Topology plays a central role in nearly all disciplines of physics, yet its applications have so far been restricted to closed, lossless systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. Given that many physical systems are open and may include gain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Timothy M. Philip , Matthew J. Gilbert

The interplay of topology and non-Hermiticity has led to diverse, exciting manifestations in a plethora of systems. In this work, we systematically investigate the role of non-Hermiticity in the Chern insulating Haldane model on a dice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Ronika Sarkar , Arka Bandyopadhyay , Awadhesh Narayan

Anderson localization and the non-Hermitian skin effect are two distinct confinement phenomena of the eigenfunctions that are driven, respectively, by disorder and nonreciprocity. Understanding their interplay within a unified framework…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-27 Dipendu Halder , Saurabh Basu