We propose counterintuitive topological pumps induced by disorder in noninteracting and interacting systems. We show an extrinsic topological pump driven by the on-site quasiperiodic potential for a two-loop sequence, where the disorder nonequivalently suppresses the topology of two pump loops. Moreover, we find an intrinsic topological pump induced by the hopping quasiperiodic disorder from a trivial single-loop pump in the clean limit, dubbed the topological Anderson-Thouless pump (TATP) as a dynamical analog of topological Anderson insulators. We demonstrate that the mechanism of the TATP is the disorder-induced shift of gapless critical points and the TATP can even appear in the dynamic disorder and interacting cases. We also extend the TATP to higher-order topological systems with disorder-induced quantized corner transport.

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• Anderson localization
• Cold atoms & matter waves
• Topological Hall effect
• Topological effects in photonic systems
• Disordered systems
• Topology