Exact Mobility Edges and Topological Anderson Insulating Phase in a Slowly Varying Quasiperiodic Model

Abstract

AbstractThe relationship of topology and disorder in a 1D Su–Schrieffer–Heeger chain subjected to a slowly varying quasi‐periodic modulation is uncovered. By numerically calculating the disorder‐averaged winding number and analytically studying the localization length of the zero modes, the topological phase diagram is obtained, which implies that the topological Anderson insulator (TAI) can be induced by a slowly varying quasi‐periodic modulation. Moreover, unlike the localization properties in the TAI phase caused by random disorder, mobility edges can enter into the TAI region identified by the fractal dimension, the inverse participation ratio, and the spatial distributions of the wave functions, the boundaries of which coincide with the analytical results presented here.