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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…

Although topological Anderson insulator has been predicted in 2009, the lasting investigations of this disorder established nontrivial state results in only two experimental observations in cold atoms [Science, {\bf 362 },929 (2018)] and in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-27 Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Bing-Lan Wu , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang

Strong disorder drives conventional Hermitian systems into Anderson insulating states, suppressing all topological phases. Here, we unveil symmetry-protected, anomalous topological phases in the strong disorder limit of a non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mina Ren , Xi Shi , Haitao Jiang , Feng Liu , Hong Chen , Yong Sun

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit unique topological and localization properties. Here we elucidate the non-Hermitian effects on disordered topological systems by studying a non-Hermitian disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Dan-Wei Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Li-Jun Lang , Hui Yan , Shi-Liang Zhu

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

A different type of topological phase dubbed topological inverse Anderson insulators is proposed, which is characterized by the disorder-induced extended bulk states from the flat-band localization and topological edge states. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Jing-Run Lin , Dawei Kang

High-order topological insulators are a recent development extending the topological theory of charge polarization to higher multipole moments. Since their theoretical proposal, several experimental realizations of high-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Marc Serra-Garcia , Roman Süsstrunk , Sebastian D. Huber

The concepts of topology have a profound impact on physics research spanning the fields of condensed matter, photonics and acoustics and predicting topological states that provide unprecedented versatility in routing and control of waves of…

The hallmark property of two-dimensional topological materials is the incredible robustness of the quantized Hall conductivity to disorder. That robustness arises from the fact that in the topological band gap, transport can occur only…

The presence of random disorder in a metallic system accounts for the localization of extended states in general. On the contrary, the presence of disorder can induce topological phases hosting metallic boundary states out of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the spinless Haldane-Hubbard model in the presence of quenched disorder, contrasting results obtained from both exact diagonalization as well as density matrix renormalization group, applied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-23 Tian-Cheng Yi , Shijie Hu , Eduardo V. Castro , Rubem Mondaini

Disorder plays an important role in two dimensions, and is responsible for striking phenomena such as metal insulator transition and the integral and fractional quantum Hall effects. In this paper, we investigate the role of disorder in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-06 Jian Li , Rui-Lin Chu , J. K. Jain , Shun-Qing Shen

We study the nature of the disorder-induced quantized conductance, i.e., the phenomena of topological Anderson insulator (TAI) induced in HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum well. The disorder effect in several different systems where anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yanxia Xing , Lei Zhang , Jian Wang

We systematically investigate the topological and localization properties of a quadrupolar insulator represented by the celebrated Benalcazar-Bernevig-Hughes model in presence of a quasiperiodic disorder instilled in its hopping amplitude.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

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…

While topological phases have been extensively studied in amorphous systems in recent years, it remains unclear whether the random nature of amorphous materials can give rise to higher-order topological phases that have no crystalline…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-15 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

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

Disorder, ubiquitously present in solids, is normally detrimental to the stability of ordered states of matter. In this letter we demonstrate that not only is the physics of a strong topological insulator robust to disorder but, remarkably,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-03 H. -M. Guo , G. Rosenberg , G. Refael , M. Franz

Amorphous topological states, which are independent of the specific spatial distribution of microscopic constructions, have gained much attention. Recently, higher-order topological insulators, which are a new class of topological phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Hai-Ming Huang , Bin Zhou

Recently, the structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between structural disorder and band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Tan Peng , Yong-Chen Xiong , Chun-Bo Hua , Zheng-Rong Liu , Xiaolu Zhu , Wei Cao , Fang Lv , Yue Hou , Bin Zhou , Ziyu Wang , Rui Xiong