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Abstract

The investigation into topological phases on non-periodic lattices has recently gained wide interest because of the discovery of never-before seen phenomena lacking a counterpart in periodic lattices. In this thesis, I present the results of my work on the lattice Laughlin state on fractal lattices and that of the BHZ model on quasicrystals. I show that the entanglement spectrum has the same topological fingerprint as in periodic lattices, and thus can be used as a probe of topological order in these new environments, where such probes are severely lacking, especially for interacting topological phases. I also show how the entanglement entropy displays precise oscillations as a function of lattice filling in fractal lattices, and is smooth for periodic lattices. I study the on-site particle densities, and anyonic excitations on different kinds of fractal lattices and show how radically different they are from the 2D case. Finally, I study the BHZ model on the Amman-Beenker tiling and show the different kinds of Bulk Localized Transport(BLT) states, the edge states, and how the latter can be used to pump charge between different kind of BLT states. I couple two layers of the half-BHZ, which are time-reversed partners of each other, with a simple time-reversal symmetric hopping, and show that the BLT and edge states still survive.