Topologically Protected Extended States in Disordered Quantum Spin-Hall Systems without Time-Reversal Symmetry

Details Topologically Protected Extended States in Disordered Quantum Spin-Hall Systems without Time-Reversal Symmetry Topologically Protected Extended States in Disordered Quantum Spin-Hall Systems without Time-Reversal Symmetry

2011-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/1108.2929v1

Phys. Rev. B 85, 075115 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 6 figures

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We demonstrate the existence of robust bulk extended states in the disordered Kane-Mele model with vertical and horizontal Zeeman fields, in the presence of a large Rashba coupling. The phase diagrams are mapped out by using level statistics analysis and computations of the localization length and spin-Chern numbers $C_\pm$. $C_\pm$ are protected by the finite energy and spin mobility gaps. The latter is shown to stay open for arbitrarily large vertical Zeeman fields, or for horizontal Zeeman fields below a critical strength or at moderate disorder. In such cases, a change of $C_\pm$ is necessarily accompanied by the closing of the mobility gap at the Fermi level. The numerical simulations reveal sharp changes in the quantized values of $C_\pm$ when crossing the regions of bulk extended states, indicating that the topological nature of the extended states is indeed linked to the spin-Chern numbers. For large horizontal Zeeman fields, the spin-gap closes at strong disorder prompting a change in the quantized spin-Chern numbers without a closing of the energy mobility gap.

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