Topologically Localized Insulators.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
16 Dec 2022
Historique:
received: 01 11 2021
revised: 30 06 2022
accepted: 07 11 2022
entrez: 6 1 2023
pubmed: 7 1 2023
medline: 7 1 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We show that fully localized, three-dimensional, time-reversal-symmetry-broken insulators do not belong to a single phase of matter but can realize topologically distinct phases that are labeled by integers. The phase transition occurs only when the system becomes conducting at some filling. We find that these novel topological phases are fundamentally distinct from insulators without disorder: they are guaranteed to host delocalized boundary states giving rise to the quantized boundary Hall conductance, whose value is equal to the bulk topological invariant.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36608229
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.256401
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

256401

Auteurs

Bastien Lapierre (B)

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Titus Neupert (T)

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Luka Trifunovic (L)

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

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