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Non-Hermitian quasicrystals possess PT and metal-insulator transitions induced by gain and loss or nonreciprocal effects. In this work, we uncover the nature of localization transitions in a generalized Aubry-Andre-Harper model with…

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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…

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Non-Hermitian extensions of the Anderson and Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper models are attracting a considerable interest as platforms to study localization phenomena, metal-insulator and topological phase transitions in disordered non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Stefano Longhi

Recently, topological quantum states of non-Hermitian systems, exhibiting rich new exotic states, have attracted great attention in condensed-matter physics. As for the demonstration, most of non-Hermitian topological phenomena previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Huaiqiang Wang , Jiawei Ruan , Haijun Zhang

We investigate disordered-driven transitions between trivial and topological insulator (TI) phases in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Our study primarily focuses on the BHZ model with Anderson disorder, while other standard 2DTI models…

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We present an approach for the calculation of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological invariant in non-crystalline two-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators. While topological invariants were originally mathematically introduced for crystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Roberta Favata , Antimo Marrazzo

Field-theoretical approach to Anderson localization in 2D disordered fermionic systems of chiral symmetry classes (BDI, AIII, CII) is developed. Important representatives of these symmetry classes are random hopping models on bipartite…

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We generalize the typical medium dynamical cluster approximation to multiband disordered systems. Using our extended formalism, we perform a systematic study of the non-local correlation effects induced by disorder on the density of states…

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We uncover the relationship of topology and disorder in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain subjected to a slowly varying quasi-periodic modulation. By numerically calculating the disorder-averaged winding number and analytically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-20 Zhanpeng Lu , Zhihao Xu , Yunbo Zhang

In this letter we study the Hall conductance for a non-Hermitian Chern insulator and quantitatively describe how the Hall conductance deviates from a quantized value. We show the effects of the non-Hermitian terms on the Hall conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Chen , Hui Zhai

The synergy between non-Hermitian concepts and topological ideas have led to very fruitful activity in the recent years. Their interplay has resulted in a wide variety of new non-Hermitian topological phenomena being discovered. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ayan Banerjee , Ronika Sarkar , Soumi Dey , Awadhesh Narayan

Topological phenomena in non-Hermitian systems have recently become a subject of great interest in the photonics and condensed-matter communities. In particular, the possibility of observing topologically-protected edge states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Pablo Reséndiz-Vázquez , Konrad Tschernig , Armando Perez-Leija , Kurt Busch , Roberto de J. León-Montiel

We study a non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with both nonreciprocal hoppings and complex quasiperiodical potentials, which is a typical non-Hermitian quasicrystal. We introduce boundary-dependent self-dualities in this model and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-20 Xiaoming Cai

Non-Hermitian two-site ``dimers'' serve as minimal models in which to explore the interplay of gain and loss in dynamical systems. In this paper, we experimentally and theoretically investigate the dynamics of non-Hermitian dimer models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Enrico Martello , Yaashnaa Singhal , Bryce Gadway , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah M. Price

Topology and disorder have deep connections and a rich combined influence on quantum transport. In order to probe these connections, we synthesized one-dimensional chiral symmetric wires with controllable disorder via spectroscopic…

We investigate the localization and topological transitions in a one-dimensional (interacting) non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattice, which is described by a generalized Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper model with irrational modulations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Ling-Zhi Tang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

The presence of disorder can severely impede wave transport, resulting in the famous Anderson localization. Previous theoretical studies found that Anderson transition can exist in one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian disordered rings with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Guancong Ma

Local topological markers are used to characterize Chern insulators in the presence of spatial inhomogeneities, such as boundaries and disorder. In this paper, we study the local Chern marker in systems with partial translational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Maks Repše , Tomaž Rejec , Jernej Mravlje

Topological insulators are characterized by specially protected conduction on their outer boundaries. We show that the protected edge conduction exhibited by 2-D topological insulators (and also Chern insulators) is independent of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Quansheng Wu , Liang Du , Vincent E. Sacksteder

Non-Hermitian skin-edge states emerge only at one edge in one-dimensional nonreciprocal chains, where all states are localized at the edge irrespective of eigenvalues. The bulk topological number is the winding number associated with the…

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