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Anyon delocalization transitions out of a disordered FQAH insulator

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-06-12 v2

Abstract

Motivated by the experimental discovery of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, we develop a theory of doping-induced transitions out of the ν=2/3\nu = 2/3 lattice Jain state in the presence of quenched disorder. We show that disorder strongly affects the evolution into the conducting phases described in our previous work. The delocalization of charge 2/32/3 anyons leads to a chiral topological superconductor through a direct second order transition for a smooth random potential with long-wavelength modulations. The longitudinal resistance has a universal peak at the associated quantum critical point. Close to the transition, we show that the superconducting ground state is an ``Anomalous Vortex Glass (AVG)'' stabilized in the absence of an external magnetic field. For short-wavelength disorder, this transition generically splits into three distinct ones with intermediate insulating topological phases. If instead, the charge 1/31/3 anyon delocalizes, then at low doping the result is a Reentrant Integer Quantum Hall state with ρxy=h/e2\rho_{xy} = h/e^2. At higher doping this undergoes a second transition to a Fermi liquid metal. We show that this framework provides a plausible explanation for the complex phase diagram recently observed in twisted MoTe2_2 near ν=2/3\nu = 2/3 and discuss future experiments that can test our theory in more detail.

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@article{arxiv.2506.02128,
  title  = {Anyon delocalization transitions out of a disordered FQAH insulator},
  author = {Zhengyan Darius Shi and T. Senthil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02128},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages, 7 figures. v2: added refs and new discussion of anomalous vortex glass