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Topological Anderson Insulator in Three Dimensions

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Abstract

We show that disorder, when sufficiently strong, can transform an ordinary metal with strong spin-orbit coupling into a strong topological "Anderson" insulator, a new topological phase of quantum matter in three dimensions characterized by disordered insulating bulk and topologically protected conducting surface states.

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© 2010 The American Physical Society. Received 1 August 2010; published 19 November 2010. The authors acknowledge illuminating discussions with I. Garate, A. Kitaev, J. E. Moore, A. Vishwanath, C.Weeks, and S.-C. Zhang. The work was supported in part by NSERC, CIfAR (M. F.), China Scholarship Council (H. M. G.), the Packard Foundation, and the Research Corporation (G. R.).

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