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We investigate the effects of quenched randomness on topological quantum phase transitions in strongly interacting two-dimensional systems. We focus first on transitions driven by the condensation of a subset of fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-03 Byungmin Kang , S. A. Parameswaran , Andrew C. Potter , Romain Vasseur , Snir Gazit

The double Weyl semimetal (DWSM) is a newly proposed topological material that hosts Weyl points with chiral charge n=2. The disorder effect in DWSM is investigated by adopting the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Using the transfer matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jiayan Zhang , Fei Wan , Xinru Wang , Ying Ding , Liehong Liao , Zhihui Chen , M. N. Chen , Yuan Li

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

Topological phases of matter are commonly understood as emerging either from crystalline symmetry and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling or from disorder-driven electronic renormalization. In realistic materials, however, structural defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Emmanuel V. C. Lopes , Felipe Crasto de Lima , Caio Lewenkopf , Adalberto Fazzio

We study the stability of the topological phase in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain subject to the quasiperiodic hopping disorder. We investigate two different hopping disorder configurations, one is the Aubry-Andr\'{e}…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-08 Tong Liu , Hao Guo

Recent progress in understanding the electronic band topology and emergent topological properties encourage us to reconsider the band structure of well-known materials including elemental substances. Controlling such a band topology by…

With electron and hole pockets touching at the Weyl node, type-II Weyl semimetal is a newly proposed topological state distinct from its type-I cousin. We numerically study the localization effect for tilted type-I as well as type-II Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Yijia Wu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

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

We study non-interacting systems with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\xi_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha$ and a random short-range-correlated potential. We show that, unlike the case of lower dimensions, for $d>2\alpha$ there exists a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. V. Syzranov , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

Disorder, traditionally believed to hinder the propagation of waves. has recently been shown to prompt the occurrence of topological phase transitions. For example, when disorder strength continuously increases and surpasses certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Aodong Li , Bingcong Xu , Biye Xie

Topological insulators are a class of band insulators with non-trivial topology, a result of band inversion due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. The transition between topological and normal insulator can be realized by tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-29 Wenhan Zhang , M. X. Chen , Jixia Dai , Xueyun Wang , Zhicheng Zhong , Sang-Wook Cheong , Weida Wu

Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform for studies of electron correlation. Correlation-driven phenomena, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingxin Li , Shengwei Jiang , Bowen Shen , Yang Zhang , Lizhong Li , Trithep Devakul , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

We quantitatively discuss the influence of quenched disorder on the ferromagnetic quantum phase transition in metals, using a theory that describes the coupling of the magnetization to gapless fermionic excitations. In clean systems, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-16 Y. Sang , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

In superconductors with unconventional pairing mechanisms, the energy gap in the excitation spectrum often has nodes, which allow quasiparticle excitations at low energies. In many cases, e.g. $d$-wave cuprate superconductors, the position…

The search for topological systems has recently broadened to include random substitutional alloys, which lack the specific crystalline symmetries that protect topological phases, raising the question whether topological properties can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-19 Zhi Wang , Qihang Liu , Alex Zunger

Strongly interacting electrons in a topologically non trivial band may form exotic phases of matter. An especially intriguing example of which is the fractional quantum anomalous Hall phase, recently discovered in twisted transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Gal Shavit

The quantum Hall effect is studied numerically in modulated two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of disorder. Based on the scaling property of the Hall conductivity as well as the localization length, the critical energies where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

We study a 1D system with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\propto |k|^\alpha\sign k$ in the presence of a short-range-correlated random potential and demonstrate that for $\alpha<1/2$ it exhibits a disorder-driven quantum phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 M. Garttner , S. V. Syzranov , A. M. Rey , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

In this work, we investigate the effect of disorder on the topological properties of multichannel superconductor nanowires. While the standard expectation is that the spectral gap is closed and opened at transitions that change the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 B. Pekerten , A. Teker , O. Bozat , M. Wimmer , I. Adagideli

Local magnetic moments in disordered sytems can be described in terms of annealed magnetic disorder, in addition to the underlying quenched disorder. It is shown that for noninteracting electron systems at zero temperature, the annealed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick , Thomas Vojta