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Higher-order topology is prized for its ability to realize lower-dimensional boundary states which are stable beyond fine-tuning. However, disorder presents a failure mechanism that can destroy topological in-gap states. Here, we…

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

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…

Disorder is ubiquitous in quantum materials, and its interplay with topology can generate phases absent in the clean limit. Using the Haldane model as a minimal setting, we show that disorder not only shifts topological boundaries but also…

Topological phases of matter have been extensively studied for their intriguing bulk and edge properties. Recently, higher-order topological insulators with boundary states that are two or more dimensions lower than the bulk states, have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiujuan Zhang , Bi-Ye Xie , Hong-Fei Wang , Xiangyuan Xu , Yuan Tian , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Disorder, ubiquitously present in realistic structures, is generally thought to disturb the performance of analog wave devices, as it often causes strong multiple scattering effects that largely arrest wave transportation. Contrary to this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

The quest for the topological phases of matter in an aperiodic system has been greatly developed recently. Here we investigate the effects of disorder on topological phases of a two-dimensional Ammann-Beenker tiling quasicrystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

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

Three-dimensional topological insulators feature Dirac-like surface states which are topologically protected against the influence of weak quenched disorder. Here we investigate the effect of surface disorder beyond the weak-disorder limit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-30 Gerald Schubert , Holger Fehske , Lars Fritz , Matthias Vojta

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

Topological insulators are crystalline materials that have revolutionized our ability to control wave transport. They provide us with unidirectional channels that are immune to obstacles, defects or local disorder, and can even survive some…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

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

We identify the possibility of realizing higher order topological (HOT) phases in noncrystalline or amorphous materials. Starting from two and three dimensional crystalline HOT insulators, accommodating topological corner states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Adhip Agarwala , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

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 study the half-filled Haldane model with Anderson and binary disorder and determine its phase diagram, as a function of the Haldane flux and staggered sub-lattice potential, for increasing disorder strength. We establish that disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Miguel Gonçalves , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We demonstrate that the presence of a localized state at the corner of an insulating domain is not always a predictor of a certain non-trivial higher-order topological invariant, even though they appear to co-exist in the same Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Minwoo Jung , Yang Yu , Gennady Shvets

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the topological Anderson insulator and research interest on the topological quasicrystal lattices, we investigate the effects of disorder on topological properties of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

The imposition of crystalline symmetries is known to lead to a rich variety of insulating and superconducting topological phases. These include higher-order topological phases and obstructed atomic limits with and without filling anomalies.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Adam Yanis Chaou , Mateo Moreno-Gonzalez , Alexander Altland , Piet W. Brouwer

Topologically protected corner states serve as a key indicator for two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators, yet they have not been experimentally identified in realistic materials. Here, by utilizing the effective tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Xiaolin Wan , Junjie Zeng , Ruixiang Zhu , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang