Four-dimensional topological Anderson insulator with an emergent second Chern number

R Chen, XX Yi, B Zhou - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Four-dimensional (4D) topological insulators, which are impossible in real materials, have
attracted much attention by virtue of the recent progress achieved in quantum simulations of …

Yu-shiba-rusinov qubit

A Mishra, P Simon, T Hyart, M Trif - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Magnetic impurities in s-wave superconductors lead to spin-polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov
(YSR) in-gap states. Chains of magnetic impurities offer one of the most viable routes for the …

Lifshitz transitions, type-II Dirac and Weyl fermions, event horizon and all that

GE Volovik, K Zhang - Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2017 - Springer
The type-II Weyl and type-II Dirac points emerge in semimetals and also in relativistic
systems. In particular, the type-II Weyl fermions may emerge behind the event horizon of …

Exact solution of the single impurity problem in nonreciprocal lattices: Impurity-induced size-dependent non-Hermitian skin effect

Y Liu, Y Zeng, L Li, S Chen - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Non-Hermitian nonreciprocal systems are known to be extremely sensitive to boundary
conditions, exhibiting diverse localizing behaviors and spectrum structures when …

Momentum-space structure of surface states in a topological semimetal with a nexus point of Dirac lines

T Hyart, TT Heikkilä - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Three-dimensional topological semimetals come in different variants, either containing Weyl
points or Dirac lines. Here we describe a more complicated momentum-space topological …

Higher-order topological Anderson insulator on the Sierpiński lattice

H Chen, ZR Liu, R Chen, B Zhou - Chinese Physics B, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Disorder effects on topological materials in integer dimensions have been extensively
explored in recent years. However, its influence on topological systems in fractional …

Topological Anderson insulator phase in a quasicrystal lattice

R Chen, DH Xu, B Zhou - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
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-induced Majorana zero modes in a dimerized Kitaev superconductor chain

CB Hua, R Chen, DH Xu, B Zhou - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental observation of the topological Anderson insulator in
disordered atomic wires based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, we study disorder …

Corner states, hinge states, and Majorana modes in SnTe nanowires

NM Nguyen, W Brzezicki, T Hyart - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
SnTe materials are one of the most flexible material platforms for exploring the interplay of
topology and different types of symmetry breaking. We study symmetry-protected topological …

Impurity-induced excitations in a topological two-dimensional ferromagnet/superconductor van der Waals moiré heterostructure

M Khosravian, JL Lado - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
The emergence of a topological superconducting state in van der Waals heterostructures
provides a new platform for exploring novel strategies to control topological …