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Combined topological and Landau order from strong correlations in Chern bands

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-12-11 v2

Abstract

We present a class of states with both topological and conventional Landau order that arise out of strongly interacting spinless fermions in fractionally filled and topologically non-trivial bands with Chern number C=±1C=\pm 1. These quantum states show the features of fractional Chern insulators, such as fractional Hall conductivity and interchange of ground-state levels upon insertion of a magnetic flux. In addition, they exhibit charge order and a related additional trivial ground-state degeneracy. Band mixing and geometric frustration of the charge pattern place these lattice states markedly beyond a single-band description.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6948,
  title  = {Combined topological and Landau order from strong correlations in Chern bands},
  author = {Stefanos Kourtis and Maria Daghofer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6948},
  year   = {2014}
}

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7 pages incl. supplement