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The presence of random disorder in a metallic system accounts for the localization of extended states in general. On the contrary, the presence of disorder can induce topological phases hosting metallic boundary states out of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

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

We examine the transition from trivial to non-trivial phases in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model subjected to disorder in a quasi-periodic environment. We analytically determine the phase boundary, and characterize the localization of normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Sayan Sircar

The interplay of topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity gives rise to phenomena beyond the conventional classification of quantum phases. We propose a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with quasiperiodically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 Qi-Bo Zeng , Rong Lü

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

We study the characterization and realization of higher-order topological Anderson insulator (HOTAI) in non-Hermitian systems, where the non-Hermitian mechanism ensures extra symmetries as well as gain and loss disorder.We illuminate that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-09 Hongfang Liu , Ji-Kun Zhou , Bing-Lan Wu , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

Boundary obstructed topological insulators are an unusual class of higher-order topological insulators with topological characteristics determined by the so-called Wannier bands. Boundary obstructed phases can harbor hinge/corner modes, but…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-10-07 Jahan Claes , Taylor L. Hughes

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 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 examine the emergence of topological Anderson insulating phases in the spinful Haldane model with Hubbard and next-neighbor density-density interactions, subject to Anderson disorder. Using finite-size exact diagonalization, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alejandro J. Uría-Álvarez , Roser Valentí

The tenfold classification of topological phases enumerates all strong topological phases for both clean and disordered systems. These strong topological phases are connected to the existence of robust edge states. However, in addition to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-16 Jahan Claes , Taylor Hughes

Bloch wavefunctions in crystals experience localization within the bulk when disorder is introduced, a phenomenon commonly known as Anderson localization. This effect is considered universal, being applicable to all types of waves, quantum…

The disorder effects on higher-order topological phases in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems, such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between disorder and higher-order topology is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

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 study the topology and localization properties of a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with a quasi-periodic modulated hopping. It is found that the interplay of off-diagonal quasi-periodic modulations can induce topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-04 Zhanpeng Lu , Yunbo Zhang , Zhihao Xu

In topological phases of matter for which the bulk and boundary support distinct electronic gaps, there exists the possibility of decoupled mobility gaps in the presence of disorder. This is in analogy with the well-studied problem of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-29 Cormac Grindall , Alexander C. Tyner , Ang-Kun Wu , Taylor L. Hughes , J. H. Pixley

The axion insulator exhibits a topological magnetoelectric effect characterized by an axion angle $\theta=\pi$, while the time-reversal-doubled axion insulator (T-DAXI) can be viewed as two copies of an axion insulator related by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Yue Xie , Haohao Sheng , Quansheng Wu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

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

Here we study the instabilities of a quadratic band crossing system to Chern insulating states and uncorrelated disorder. We determined the phase diagram in the plane of topological mass versus disorder strength, characterizing the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-19 Nicolau Sobrosa , Miguel Gonçalves , Eduardo V. Castro

We study mesoscopic signatures of the topological Anderson transitions in topological disordered chains. To this end we introduce an integer-valued sample-specific definition of the topological index in finite size systems. Its phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-14 Hao Zhang , Alex Kamenev