Topological Anderson insulator phases in one dimensional quasi-periodic mechanical SSH chains

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the transition between topological phases in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model composed of springs and masses in which the intracellular Aubry-André disorder modulates the spring constants. We analytically compute the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the dynamical matrix for both periodic and fixed boundary conditions, and compare them with the dispersion spectrum of the original tight-binding SSH model. We observe the presence of a topological Anderson insulating (TAI) phase within a specific range of quasi-periodic modulation strength and calculate the phase transition boundary analytically. We examine the localization properties of normal modes using their inverse participation ratio (IPR) of eigenstates of the dynamical matrix, and the corresponding fractal dimension associated with quasiperiodic modulation. We also examine the stability of the TAI phase across a range of modulation strengths and comments on the presence of mobility edge that separate localized modes from non-localized ones. We demonstrate the fact that special analytical techniques are needed to compute an exact expression for mobility edges in such scenarios.

16 pages, 16 figures. This article is a simple and normal extension of the earlier article arXiv:2407.17883 by the same author

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