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Low-temperature dissipation due to vortex motion in strongly anisotropic type-II superconductors with a moderate disorder ($\Delta^2/E_F \ll \hbar/\tau \ll \Delta$) is shown to be determined by the Zener-type transitions between the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. V. Feigel'man , M. A. Skvortsov

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

We investigate the nature of the superfluid-insulator quantum phase transition driven by disorder for non-interacting ultracold atoms on one-dimensional lattices. We consider two different cases: Anderson-type disorder, with local energies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-17 J. C. C. Cestari , A. Foerster , M. A. Gusmão , M. Continentino

Topological insulators (TIs) having intrinsic or proximity-coupled s-wave superconductivity host Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the ends of vortex lines. The MZMs survive up to a critical doping of the TI at which there is a vortex phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-21 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Taylor L. Hughes , Enrico Rossi

Recently, the structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between structural disorder and band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Tan Peng , Yong-Chen Xiong , Chun-Bo Hua , Zheng-Rong Liu , Xiaolu Zhu , Wei Cao , Fang Lv , Yue Hou , Bin Zhou , Ziyu Wang , Rui Xiong

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 study topological vortex phases in iron-based superconductors. Besides the previously known vortex end Majorana zero modes (MZMs) phase stemming from the existence of a three dimensional (3D) strong topological insulator state, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-05 Shengshan Qin , Lunhui Hu , Xianxin Wu , Xia Dai , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

Amorphous topological states, which are independent of the specific spatial distribution of microscopic constructions, have gained much attention. Recently, higher-order topological insulators, which are a new class of topological phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Hai-Ming Huang , Bin Zhou

We demonstrate that the prototypical two-dimensional Chern insulator hosts exotic quantum multi-criticality in the presence of an appropriate periodic driving: a linear Dirac-like transition coexists with a nodal loop-like transition caused…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 Paolo Molignini , Wei Chen , R. Chitra

Topological insulators (TI) are a phase of matter that host unusual metallic states on their surfaces. Unlike the states that exist on the surface of conventional materials, these so-called topological surfaces states (TSS) are protected…

We discuss the effects of disorder in time-reversal invariant topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions. For three-dimensional topological insulator in symplectic (AII) symmetry class, the phase diagram in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shinsei Ryu , Kentaro Nomura

Fathoming interplay between symmetry and topology of many-electron wave-functions has deepened understanding of quantum many body systems, especially after the discovery of topological insulators. Topology of electron wave-functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-15 SangEun Han , Gil Young Cho , Eun-Gook Moon

We investigate the effect of a high frequency electromagnetic field with both of circularly and linearly polarization, on the emergence of quantum phases on thin topological insulators. Simultaneously, the influence of the system parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 S. Sajad Dabiri , Hosein Cheraghchi

Topological defects are ubiquitous from solid state physics to cosmology, where they drive phase transitions by proliferating as domain walls, monopoles or vortices. As quantum excitations, they often display fractional charge and anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 R. Koushik , Matthias Baenninger , Vijay Narayan , Subroto Mukerjee , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

In magnetic topological insulators, a phase transition between a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) and an Anderson localization phase can be triggered by the rotation of an applied magnetic field. Without the scattering paths along magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristof Moors , Gen Yin

We investigate disordered-driven transitions between trivial and topological insulator (TI) phases in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Our study primarily focuses on the BHZ model with Anderson disorder, while other standard 2DTI models…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-03 Bryan D. Assunção , Gerson J. Ferreira , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Chirality in active and passive fluids gives rise to odd transport properties, most notably the emergence of robust edge currents that defy standard dissipative dynamics. While these phenomena are well-described by continuum hydrodynamics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-11 Jan Wójcik , Erik Kalz

Random flux is commonly believed to be incapable of driving full metal-insulator transitions in non-interacting systems. Here we show that random flux can after all induce a full metal-band insulator transition in the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Chang-An Li , Song-Bo Zhang , Jan Carl Budich , Björn Trauzettel

Topological materials are often characterized by unique edge states which are in turn used to detect different topological phases in experiments. Recently, with the discovery of various higher-order topological insulators, such spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ze-Lin Kong , Zhi-Kang Lin , Jian-Hua Jiang