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Fragility of the antichiral edge states under disorder
by Marwa Manna\"i, Eduardo Filipe Vieira de Castro, Sonia Haddad
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Sonia Haddad |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202406_00054v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2024-06-24 09:13 |
| Submitted by: | Haddad, Sonia |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
Chiral edge states are the fingerprint of the bulk-edge correspondence in a Chern insulator. Co-propagating edge modes, known as antichiral edge states, have been predicted to occur in the so-called modified Haldane model describing a two-dimensional semi-metal with broken time reversal symmetry. These counterintuitive edge modes are argued to be immune to backscattering and extremely robust against disorder. Here, we investigate the robustness of the antichiral edge states in the presence of Anderson disorder. By analyzing different localization parameters, we show that these edge states are relatively fragile against disorder compared to the chiral modes. Our work provides insights to improve the transport efficiency in the burgeoning fields of antichiral topological photonics and acoustics.
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