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Effects of disorder on two-dimensional Z2 topological insulator are studied numerically by the transfer matrix method. Based on the scaling analysis, the phase diagram is derived for a model of HgTe quantum well as a function of disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura , Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yoshio Kuramoto

Semi-Dirac materials in 2D present an anisotropic dispersion relation, linear along one direction and quadratic along the perpendicular one. This study explores the topological properties and the influence of disorder in a 2D semi-Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Marta García Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina

We investigate the possibility of using structural disorder to induce a topological phase in a solid state system. Using first-principles calculations, we introduce structural disorder in the trivial insulator BiTeI and observe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 Paul Corbae , Frances Hellman , Sinead M. Griffin

Motivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of two time-reversal-conjugated $\nu=2/3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

The dynamics of the magnetic field in a superconducting phase is described by an effective massive bosonic field theory. If the superconductor is confined in a domain M with boundary \partial M, the boundary conditions of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , J. M. Perez-Pardo

Two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators can display a number of exotic phenomena such as half-integer charges localized at corners or disclination defects. In this paper, we analyze these phenomena, focusing on the paradigmatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-11 Julian May-Mann , Taylor L. Hughes

We investigate the presence of percolating states in disordered two-dimensional topological insulators. In particular, we uncover a close connection between these states and the so-called topological Anderson insulator (TAI), which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Adrian Girschik , Florian Libisch , Stefan Rotter

We investigate the scattering and localization properties of edge and bulk states in a disordered two-dimensional topological insulator when they coexist at the same fermi energy. Due to edge-bulk backscattering (which is not prohibited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Yan-Yang Zhang , Man Shen , Xing-Tao An , Qing-Feng Sun , Xin-Cheng Xie , Kai Chang , Shu-Shen Li

Abstract: Using ab initio calculations supported by experimental transport measurements, we present the first credible candidate for the realization of a disorder-induced Topological Anderson Insulator in a real material system. High energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-29 Binayak Mukherjee , Eleonora Isotta , Narges Ataollahi , Paolo Scardi

We analyze the effect of disorder on the weak-coupling instabilities of quadratic band crossing point (QBCP) in two-dimensional Fermi systems, which, in the clean limit, display interaction- driven topological insulating phases. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Jing Wang , Carmine Ortix , Jeroen van den Brink , Dmitry V. Efremov

We study the topological phase in dipolar-coupled two-dimensional breathing square lattice of magnetic vortices. By evaluating the quantized Chern number and $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$ Berry phase, we obtain the phase diagram and identify that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Z. -X. Li , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

We study the effects of quasidisorder and Anderson disorder on a two dimensional topological superconductor with an applied external magnetic field. The cases of a $p$-wave superconductor and a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with mixed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-20 M. F. Madeira , P. D. Sacramento

We consider chiral electrons moving along the 1D helical edge of a 2D topological insulator and interacting with a disordered chain of Kondo impurities. Assuming the electron-spin couplings of random anisotropies, we map this system to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 B. L. Altshuler , I. L. Aleiner , V. I. Yudson

In this article we study field-theoretical aspects of multipolar topological insulators. Previous research has shown that such systems naturally couple to higher-rank tensor gauge fields that arise as a result of gauging dipole or subsystem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Oleg Dubinkin , Alex Rasmussen , Taylor L. Hughes

A central property of (Chern) topological insulators is the presence of robust asymmetric transport along interfaces separating two-dimensional insulating materials in different topological phases. A Topological Anderson Insulator is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Guillaume Bal , Thuyen Dang

Symmetry-protected topological phases host gapless modes at their boundary with a featureless environment of the same dimension or a trivial vacuum. In this study, we explore their behavior in a higher-dimensional environment, which itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala

We numerically demonstrate a practical means of systematically controlling topological transport on the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator, by introducing strong disorder in a layer of depth $d$ extending inward from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincent Sacksteder , Tomi Ohtsuki , Koji Kobayashi

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 E. J. König , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Protopopov , A. D. Mirlin

We investigate the effect of a high frequency electromagnetic field with both of circularly and linearly polarization, on the emergence of quantum phases on thin topological insulators. Simultaneously, the influence of the system parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 S. Sajad Dabiri , Hosein Cheraghchi

Pursuing topological phase and matter in a variety of systems is one central issue in current physical sciences and engineering. Motivated by the recent experimental observation of corner states in acoustic and photonic structures, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Z. -X. Li , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan , X. R. Wang