Boundary criticality at the Anderson transition between a metal and a quantum spin Hall insulator in two dimensions

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dc.creatorObuse, Hideaki
dc.creatorFurusaki, Akira
dc.creatorRyu, Shinsei
dc.creatorMudry, Christopher
dc.date2008-05-27
dc.date2008-09-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:59:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:59:52Z
dc.descriptionStatic disorder in a noninteracting gas of electrons confined to two dimensions can drive a continuous quantum (Anderson) transition between a metallic and an insulating state when time-reversal symmetry is preserved but spin-rotation symmetry is broken. The critical exponent $ν$ that characterizes the diverging localization length and the bulk multifractal scaling exponents that characterize the amplitudes of the critical wave functions at the metal-insulator transition do not depend on the topological nature of the insulating state, i.e., whether it is topologically trivial (ordinary insulator) or nontrivial (a $Z_2$ insulator supporting a quantum spin Hall effect). This is not true of the boundary multifractal scaling exponents which we show (numerically) to depend on whether the insulating state is topologically trivial or not.
dc.description12 pages, 13 figures, selected for an Editors' Suggestion in PRB
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4043
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4043
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. B 78, 115301 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.115301
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/168179
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.titleBoundary criticality at the Anderson transition between a metal and a quantum spin Hall insulator in two dimensions
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