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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 83, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.195119
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- Research Corporation for Science Advancement
- office of the Provost of Yeshiva University
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We compute the phase diagram of HgTe/CdTe quantum wells in the three-dimensional parameter space of Dirac mass, Fermi level, and disorder strength. The phase diagram reveals the quantum spin-Hall, the metallic, and the normal insulating phases. The phase boundary of the quantum spin-Hall state is shown to be strongly deformed by the disorder. Taking specific cuts into this three-dimensional phase diagram, we recover the so-called topological Anderson insulator (TAI) phase, but now we can demonstrate explicitly that the TAI is not a distinct phase; instead, it is part of the quantum spin-Hall phase. Calculations are performed with S-z-conserving and S-z-nonconserving Hamiltonians.
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