Correlated disorder induced anomalous transport in magnetically doped topological insulators

Abstract

We examine the transport properties of magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) thin films subject to correlated non-magnetic disorder. For the disorder we choose a quasi-periodic potential with a random phase. We restrict the disorder to a central region, which is coupled to two leads in a clean quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) state and concentrate on different orientations of the quasi-periodicity in the two-dimensional central region. In the case of a diagonally oriented or purely longitudinal quasi-periodicity we find different topological Anderson insulator (TAI) phases, with a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI), a quantum spin Chern insulator (QSCI), or a QSHI phase being realized before the Anderson insulation takes over at large disorder strength. Quantized transport from extended bulk states is found for diagonal quasi-periodicity in addition to the above TAI phases that are also observed for the case of uncorrelated disorder. For a purely transverse orientation of the quasi-periodicity the emerging QSHI and QSCI phases persist to arbitrarily strong disorder potential. These topological phase transitions (except to the Anderson insulator phase), can be understood from a self consistent Born approximation.

arXiv commentMain Text: 7 pages and 4 figures, Supplementary Material: 7 pages and 5 figures

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