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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts normal-state nearly-flat bands with nonzero Euler numbers and shows superconductivity. In this work, we study the effects of the nontrivial normal-state band topology on the intervalley…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-03 Jiabin Yu , Ming Xie , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

Two-dimensional Euler insulators are novel kind of systems that host multi-gap topological phases, quantified by a quantised first Euler number in their bulk. Recently, these phases have been experimentally realised in suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Adrien Bouhon , Yan-Qing Zhu , Robert-Jan Slager , Giandomenico Palumbo

Twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides host highly tunable moir\'e potentials, flat bands, and correlated electronic phases, yet the role of disorder in shaping these emergent properties remains largely unresolved. Using scanning…

Symmetry-protected topological phases of matter, characterized by non-trivial band topology, are spectrally gapped and show non-trivial boundary phenomena. Here, we show that scattering states when interjected by an array of periodically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Rahul Singh , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Adhip Agarwala

A detailed study of the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition in the one-band Hubbard model in the presence of binary alloy disorder is presented. The influence of the disorder (with concentration $x$ and $1-x$ of the two alloy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Krzysztof Byczuk , Martin Ulmke , Dieter Vollhardt

We consider the impact of disorder on the spectrum of three-dimensional nodal-line semimetals. We show that the combination of disorder and a tilted spectrum naturally leads to a non-Hermitian self-energy contribution that can split a nodal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Kristof Moors , Alexander A. Zyuzin , Alexander Yu. Zyuzin , Rakesh P. Tiwari , Thomas L. Schmidt

We present a paradoxical finding that, in the vicinity of a topological phase transition in a quantum anomalous Hall system (Chern insulator), topology nearly always (except when the system obeys charge-conjugation symmetry) results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Denis R. Candido , Maxim Kharitonov , J. Carlos Egues , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We investigate the effect of quenched bond-disorder on the anisotropic spin-1/2 (XXZ) chain as a model for disorder induced quantum phase transitions. We find non-universal behavior of the average correlation functions for weak disorder,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Hamacher , J. Stolze , W. Wenzel

The Anderson metal-insulator transition is a continuous phase transition driven by disorder. It remains a challenging problem to theoretically determine universal critical properties at the transition. The Anderson transition in a model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer , A. Furusaki , C. Mudry , S. Ryu

The topological Euler characteristic number of the energy band proposed in our previous work (see Yu-Quan Ma et al., arXiv:1202.2397; EPL 103, 10008 (2013)) has been recently experimentally observed by X. Tan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Yu-Quan Ma

Using the generalized DMFT+Sigma approach we have studied disorder influence on single-particle properties of the normal phase and superconducting transition temperature in attractive Hubbard model. The wide range of attractive potentials U…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-12 E. Z. Kuchinskii , N. A. Kuleeva , M. V. Sadovskii

Exploration of the novel relationship between magnetic order and topological semimetals has received enormous interest in a wide range of both fundamental and applied research. Here we predict that soft ferromagnetic (FM) material EuB6 can…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-26 Simin Nie , Yan Sun , Fritz B. Prinz , Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

Topological Weyl semimetals, besides manifesting chiral anomaly, can also accommodate a disorder-driven unconventional quantum phase transition into a metallic phase. A fundamentally and practically important question in this regard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic , Sankar Das Sarma

We study the effects of disorder in two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets on a square lattice, within the nonlinear sigma model approach, by using of a random distribution of spin stiffnesses or zero-temperature-spin-gaps, respectively,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. S. Conceicao , E. C. Marino

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 study the effects of disorder on the interlayer transport properties of disordered semiconductor bilayers outside of the quantum Hall regime by performing self-consistent quantum transport calculations. We find that the addition of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Youngseok Kim , Brian Dellabetta , Matthew J. Gilbert

We numerically study the density of topological defects for a two-dimensional assembly of particles driven over quenched disorder as a function of quench rate through the nonequilibrium phase transition from a plastic disordered flowing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. del Campo , C. Reichhardt

We propose a new mechanism to explain the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and the electric-field-induced topological phase transition in AB-stacked MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ moir\'e heterobilayers at $\nu=1$ hole filling. We suggest that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yao-Wen Chang , Yia-Chung Chang

We investigate the crossover from the semiclassical to the quantum description of electron energy states in a chaotic metal grain connected to a superconductor. We consider the influence of scattering off point impurities (quantum disorder)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. G. Vavilov , A. I. Larkin

We have studied the influence of disorder induced by electron irradiation on the normal state resistivities $\rho(T)$ of optimally and underdoped YBa2CuOx single crystals, using pulsed magnetic fields up to 60T to completely restore the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-13 F. Rullier-Albenque , H. Alloul , F. Balakirev , C. Proust