Superuniversality from disorder at two-dimensional topological phase transitions
@article{Kang2020SuperuniversalityFD,
title={Superuniversality from disorder at two-dimensional topological phase transitions},
author={Byungmin Kang and Siddharth A. Parameswaran and Andrew C. Potter and Romain Vasseur and Snir Gazit},
journal={Physical Review B},
year={2020}
}We investigate the effects of quenched randomness on topological quantum phase transitions in strongly-interacting two-dimensional systems. We focus first on transitions driven by the condensation of a subset of fractionalized quasiparticles (`anyons') identified with `electric charge' excitations of a phase with intrinsic topological order. All other anyons have nontrivial mutual statistics with the condensed subset and hence become confined at the anyon condensation transition. Using a…
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