supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2015CB921102);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11534001,11822407,11704106,and 11974256);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions;National Natural Science Foundation of China of Jiangsu province(Grant No.BK20190813);supported by the Chutian Scholars Program in Hubei Province。
In this work,we study the effects of disorder on topological metals that support a pair of helical edge modes deeply embedded inside the gapless bulk states.Strikingly,we predict that a quantum spin Hall(QSH)phase can...