Time delay in a disordered topological system

Abstract

The discovery of topological insulators has opened new prospects for robust signal transport for electronic, phononic, and photonic devices. Though transport of topological protected edge states is robust to disorder, large fluctuations and lengthened average delay time are observed. Here, we consider a quasi-1d system following the Haldane model and generalize the idea of eigenchannel time delay to the topological system. Eigenchannel time delay indicates the excited density of states for the configuration and relates to the intensity integral inside the system. Taking advantage of this property, we point out a practical way to extract the central frequency and linewidth of localized modes excited in the topological system. This work links the fluctuation of time delay to the strength of disorder and discusses the scaling of time delay.

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