Topological inverse Anderson insulator
Zheng-Wei Zuo, Jing-Run Lin, Dawei Kang
Abstract
A different type of topological phase dubbed topological inverse Anderson insulators is proposed, which is characterized by the disorder-induced extended bulk states from the flat-band localization and topological edge states. Based on the topological invariant, the behaviors of the localization length of the zero-energy modes, and quantum transport, we identify its existence in several all-band-flat models with the disordered potentials or hopping including the $\ensuremath{\pi}$-flux Creutz ladder, the fully dimerized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain, and the $\ensuremath{\pi}$-flux diamond chain. Unlike the topological Anderson insulator, where disorder induces localization and exponential suppression of transport, the disorder-assisted quantum ballistic coherent transport can appear in the topological inverse Anderson insulator. In addition, our proposal and results could be realized by the current experimental techniques.