Machine Learning of Topological Insulator and Anderson Insulator in One-Dimensional Extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chain

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Main Authors: Yin, Zhekai, Ong, C. K.
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author Yin, Zhekai
Ong, C. K.
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Ong, C. K.
contents We study disorder effects in the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on reduced correlation matrices (RCMs) of disorder-free systems to predict winding number phase diagrams in systems with off-diagonal and diagonal disorder. The trained CNN model generalizes to chiral-symmetry-preserving off-diagonal disorder system but fails in the presence of chiral-symmetry-breaking diagonal disorder system. Using principal component analysis (PCA) of the RCM feature space, we demonstrate that disorder-free and symmetry-preserving systems share overlapping feature manifolds, whereas symmetry-breaking disorder causes them to diverge. Inverse participation ratio (IPR) and energy spectrum analysis further demonstrate that off-diagonal disorder preserves topological edge states, whereas diagonal disorder drives a transition to an Anderson insulator. Our results position machine learning not merely as a classifier, but as a sensitive probe for the symmetry-protected nature of quantum matter.
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spellingShingle Machine Learning of Topological Insulator and Anderson Insulator in One-Dimensional Extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chain
Yin, Zhekai
Ong, C. K.
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
We study disorder effects in the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on reduced correlation matrices (RCMs) of disorder-free systems to predict winding number phase diagrams in systems with off-diagonal and diagonal disorder. The trained CNN model generalizes to chiral-symmetry-preserving off-diagonal disorder system but fails in the presence of chiral-symmetry-breaking diagonal disorder system. Using principal component analysis (PCA) of the RCM feature space, we demonstrate that disorder-free and symmetry-preserving systems share overlapping feature manifolds, whereas symmetry-breaking disorder causes them to diverge. Inverse participation ratio (IPR) and energy spectrum analysis further demonstrate that off-diagonal disorder preserves topological edge states, whereas diagonal disorder drives a transition to an Anderson insulator. Our results position machine learning not merely as a classifier, but as a sensitive probe for the symmetry-protected nature of quantum matter.
title Machine Learning of Topological Insulator and Anderson Insulator in One-Dimensional Extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chain
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11688