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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…

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We investigate re-entrant topological behavior in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with generalized Bernoulli-type disorder in the intradimer hopping amplitudes. We show that varying the values and probabilities of the disorder…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Ruijiang Ji , Yunbo Zhang , Shu Chen , Zhihao Xu

In this paper, we study periodically modulated $s=1/2$ spin chain in a linear gradient potential (LP) that is generated by an external magnetic field. In the absence of the LP, the system has topological states that exhibit a magnetization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

Recent studies of disorder or non-Hermiticity induced topological insulators inject new ingredients for engineering topological matter. Here we consider the effect of purely non-Hermitian disorders, a combination of these two ingredients,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

We study the effects of quasiperiodicity on the stability of conventional and unconventional superconductors. Quasiperiodicity is modelled using the three-dimensional Aubry-Andre model, a system in which electrons are coupled to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-16 Nicole Sabina Ticea , Julian May-Mann , Jiewen Xiao , Erez Berg , Trithep Devakul

We introduce three numerical methods for characterizing the topological phases of three-dimensional multiband Hubbard models based on twisted boundary conditions, Wilson loops, as well as the local topological marker. We focus on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-21 Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Fabian Grusdt , Walter Hofstetter

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the spinful extended Haldane-Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice using an exact-diagonalization, mean-field variational approach, and further complement it with the infinite density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Can Shao , Eduardo V. Castro , Shijie Hu , Rubem Mondaini

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 investigate topological superconductivity in the Rashba-Hubbard model, describing heavy-atom superlattice and van der Waals materials with broken inversion. We focus in particular on fillings close to the van Hove singularities, where a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-26 Pietro M. Bonetti , Debmalya Chakraborty , Xianxin Wu , Andreas P. Schnyder

Effects of disorder on two-dimensional Z2 topological insulator are studied numerically by the transfer matrix method. Based on the scaling analysis, the phase diagram is derived for a model of HgTe quantum well as a function of disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura , Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yoshio Kuramoto

For the Fermi-Hubbard model in the Mott insulator phase, we employ the hierarchy of correlations to study how doublon and holon quasi-particle excitations are affected by adding disorder to the system. We study two types of disorder: charge…

Using the Hubbard chain at quarter filling as a model system, we study the ground state properties of highly doped antiferromagnets. In particular, the Hubbard chain at quarter filling is unstable against 2k_F- and 4k_F-periodic potentials,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Schuster , U. Schwingenschloegl

We propose the entanglement dipole polarization to describe the topological quadrupole phase. The quadrupole moment can be regarded as a pair of the dipole moment, in which the total dipole moment is canceled. The entanglement polarization,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 T. Fukui , Y. Hatsugai

We investigate the behavior of the quasi-particle energy gap near quantum phase transitions in a two-dimensional disordered boson Hubbard model at a commensurate filling. Via Monte Carlo simulations of ensembles with fixed numbers of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Ji-Woo Lee , Min-Chul Cha

Motivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of two time-reversal-conjugated $\nu=2/3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, the concept of non-linear second-order topological insulators, a class of bulk insulators with quantized Wannier centers and a bulk polarization directly controlled by the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

The helical edge states in a quantum spin Hall insulator are presumably protected by time- reversal symmetry. However, even in the presence of magnetic field which breaks time-reversal symmetry, the helical edge conduction can still exist,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Min-Jyun Jhang , Tsung-Wei Chen , Guang-Yu Guo

We investigate reentrant topological transitions in a one-dimensional Su--Schrieffer--Heeger chain with power-law quasiperiodically modulated intracell hopping. The modulation is characterized by a positive integer exponent $n$ and a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-04 Yusheng Niu , Hui Liu , Zhihao Xu

We study the phase transitions of bosonic $\nu=1/2$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in different topological lattice models under the interplay of onsite periodic potential and Hubbard repulsion. Through exact diagonalization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-17 Tian-Sheng Zeng

The boundary modes of topological insulators are protected by the symmetries of the non-trivial bulk electronic states. Unless these symmetries are broken, they can give rise to novel phenomena, such as the quantum spin Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani