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We study the topological properties of a one-dimensional quasiperiodic-potential-modulated mosaic trimer lattice. To begin with, we first investigate the topological properties of the model in the clean limit free of quasiperiodic disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiatao Wang , Li Wang , Shu Chen

Quasicrystals allow for symmetries that are impossible in crystalline materials, such as eight-fold rotational symmetry, enabling the existence of novel higher-order topological insulators in two dimensions without crystalline counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Yu-Feng Mao , Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Qi-Bo Zeng , Yong Xu

Two-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk and conductive edge states protected by the nontrivial topology of the bulk electronic structure. They remain robust against moderate disorder until Anderson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Roberta Favata , Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

We analyze the influence of disorder and strong correlations on the topology in two dimensional Chern insulators. A mean field calculation in the half-filled Haldane model with extended Hubbard interactions and Anderson disorder shows that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-19 Joao S. Silva , Eduardo V. Castro , Rubem Mondaini , María A. H. Vozmediano , M. Pilar López-Sancho

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

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

A higher-order topological insulator is a new concept of topological states of matter, which is characterized by the emergent boundary states whose dimensionality is lower by more than two compared with that of the bulk, and draws a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-11 Hiromu Araki , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Three-dimensional higher-order topological semimetals in crystalline systems exhibit higher-order Fermi arcs on one-dimensional hinges, challenging the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the existence of higher-order Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

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

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

Higher-order topological phases of matter have been extensively studied in various areas of physics. While the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example to study topological phases, it has not been explored whether a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

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

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

We investigate the effect of disorder on topologically nontrivial states in a two dimension (2D) mechanical system. We first propose a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator based on an out-of-plane spring-mass model and analytically study the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Xiaotian Shi , Rajesh Chaunsali , Georgios Theocharis , Huaqing Huang , Rui Zhu , Jinkyu Yang

We examine the transport properties of magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) thin films subject to correlated non-magnetic disorder. For the disorder we choose a quasi-periodic potential with a random phase. We restrict the disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Takuya Okugawa , Tanay Nag , Dante M. Kennes

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 a transition between a two-dimensional topological insulator conduction state, characterized by a conductance $G=2$ (in fundamental units $e^2/h$) and a Chern insulator with $G=1$, induced by polarized magnetic impurities.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Laurent Raymond , Alberto D. Verga , Arnaud Demion

The topological phase in amorphous systems adds a new dimension to the topological states of matter. Here, we present an interesting phenomenon dubbed the topological Anderson amorphous insulator (TAAI). Anderson disorder can drive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Xiaoyu Cheng , Tiantao Qu , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang

In recent years, the interplay between non-Hermiticity and band topology is expected to uncover numerous novel physical phenomena. However, the majority of research has focused on periodic crystalline structures, with comparatively fewer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Xiaolu Zhu , Tan Peng , Fang Lyu , Wei Cao , Yue Hou , Rui Xiong , Ziyu Wang

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