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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

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

In light of recent progress in the study of amorphous topological phases, we investigate the effects of structural disorder on the topological properties of a two-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulator modeled by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 Ranadeep Roy , Yuan-Ming Lu

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 recent experiments, time-dependent periodic fields are used to create exotic topological phases of matter with potential applications ranging from quantum transport to quantum computing. These nonequilibrium states, at high driving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-28 Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

We study the effect of disorder in systems having a non-trivial Euler class. As these recently proposed multi-gap topological phases come about by braiding non-Abelian charged band nodes residing between different bands to induce stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager

We present an effective medium theory that explains the disorder-induced transition into a phase of quantized conductance, discovered in computer simulations of HgTe quantum wells. It is the combination of a random potential and quadratic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 C. W. Groth , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov , J. Tworzydło , C. W. J. Beenakker

Using exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo calculations we investigate the effects of disorder on the phase diagram of both non-interacting and interacting models of two-dimensional topological insulators. In the fermion sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Aaron Barr , Emil Prodan , Gregory A. Fiete

Using a combination of the mean-field Bogoliubov deGennes (BdG) approach and the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method, we discover first order topological transitions between topological superconducting and trivial insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Shruti Agarwal , Shreekant Gawande , Satoshi Nishimoto , Jeroen van den Brink , Sanjeev Kumar

The correlation of topology and disorder has attracted great intention due to appropriate disorder could induce the phase transition between trivial and nontrivial topological states. While it is widely recognized that strong disorder can…

Under certain symmetries, degenerate points in three-dimensional metals form one-dimensional nodal lines. These nodal lines sometimes exhibit intricate knotted structures and have been studied in various contexts. As one of the most common…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Ming Gong , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , Qian Niu , X. C. Xie

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

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

We examine the impact of non-magnetic disorder on the electronic states of a multilayer structure comprising layers of both topological and conventional band insulators. Employing the Burkov-Balents model with renormalized tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Z. Z. Alisultanov , A. Kudlis

Higher-order nodal line semimetals represent a recently proposed topological semimetal class that harbors bulk nodal lines and features gapless hinge Fermi arc excitations, governed by the bulk-hinge correspondence. In this study, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-25 Yue-Ran Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

Disorder inevitably exists in realistic samples, manifesting itself in various exotic properties for the topological states. In this paper, we summarize and briefly review work completed over the last few years, including our own, regarding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Binglan Wu , Juntao Song , Jiaojiao Zhou , Hua Jiang

We study the two-dimensional disordered topological superconductor with Hubbard interactions. When the magnitude of the pairing potential is tuned to special values, this interacting model is exactly solvable even when disorders are imposed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-22 Yiting Deng , Yan He

We investigate the possibility of realizing a disorder-induced topological Floquet spectrum in two-dimensional periodically-driven systems. Such a state would be a dynamical realization of the topological Anderson insulator. We establish…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-12 Paraj Titum , Netanel H. Lindner , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Gil Refael

We have found the first instance of a third-order topological Anderson insulator (TOTAI). This disorder-induced topological phase is gapped and characterized by a quantized octupole moment and topologically protected corner states, as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-19 Hugo Lóio , Miguel Gonçalves , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We explore the interplay of disorder and topological phenomena in honeycomb lattices of atoms coupled by the electromagnetic field. On the one hand, disorder can trigger transitions between distinct topological phases and drive the lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 S. E. Skipetrov , P. Wulles