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Lattice models forming bands with higher Chern number offer an intriguing possibility for new phases of matter with no analogue in continuum Landau levels. Here, we establish the existence of a number of new bulk insulating states at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-06 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Heng Fan , Andreas M. Laeuchli

We investigate the moir\'e band structures and possible even denominator fractional quantum Hall state in small angle twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$, using combined large-scale local basis density functional theory calculation and continuum model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Ning Mao , Tiansheng Zeng , Yang Zhang

Most fractional quantum Hall states have been traditionally identified within a single energy band, such as the lowest Landau level or topological flat band. As more particles are introduced, they inevitably populate higher energy bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Licheng Wang , Dong-Hao Guan , Ai-Lei He , Shun-Li Yu , Yuan Zhou

A flat band with Chern number $C=0$, and well isolated from the rest of Hilbert space by a gap much larger than interaction strength, is a context that has not been regarded as relevant for fractional quantum Hall physics. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zuzhang Lin , Hongyu Lu , Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

The pursuit of a lattice analogue for Landau levels has been a central theme in condensed matter physics. Although the correspondence between Chern bands and the lowest Landau level has been widely studied, a lattice realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Huan Wang , Rui Shi , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

We present a Landau-Ginzburg theory for a fractional quantized Hall nematic state and the transition to it from an isotropic fractional quantum Hall state. This justifies Lifshitz-Chern-Simons theory -- which is shown to be its dual -- on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael Mulligan , Chetan Nayak , Shamit Kachru

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

We study two models for spinless fermions featuring topologically non-trivial bands characterized by Chern numbers $C=\pm1$ at fractional filling. Using exact diagonalization, we show that, even for infinitely strong nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefanos Kourtis , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

There is convincing numerical evidence that fractional quantum Hall (FQH)-like ground states arise in fractionally filled Chern bands (FCB). Here we show that the Hamiltonian theory of Composite Fermions (CF) can be as useful in describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

Recently, generalizations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states known as fractional quantum anomalous Hall or, equivalently, fractional Chern insulators states have been realized in lattice models. Ideal wavefunctions such as the Laughlin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale , Xiao-Liang Qi

The rise of moir\'{e} materials has led to experimental realizations of integer and fractional Chern insulators in small or vanishing magnetic fields. At the same time, a set of minimal conditions sufficient to guarantee a Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Manato Fujimoto , Daniel E. Parker , Junkai Dong , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath , Patrick Ledwith

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) -- the lattice analog of fractional quantum Hall states -- form as fractionalized quasiparticles emerge in a partially-filled Chern band. This fractionalization is driven by the interplay of electronic…

Using the infinite density matrix renormalization group method on an infinite cylinder geometry, we characterize the $1/3$ fractional Chern insulator state in the Haldane honeycomb lattice model at $\nu=1/3$ filling of the lowest band and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-06 Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Motruk , Michael P. Zaletel , Frank Pollmann

Ideal Chern insulating phases arise in two-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. They are characterized by having nearly-flat bands, and a uniform quantum geometry -- which combines the Berry curvature and quantum metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Christian Northe , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jonathan Sturm , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We perform an exact-diagonalization study of quasihole excitations for the two-component Halperin $(221)$ state in the lowest Landau level and for several $\nu=1/3$ bosonic fractional Chern insulators in topological flat bands with Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-25 Błażej Jaworowski , Nicolas Regnault , Zhao Liu

Realizing strongly-correlated topological phases of ultracold gases is a central goal for ongoing experiments. And while fractional quantum Hall states could soon be implemented in small atomic ensembles, detecting their signatures in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-21 C. Repellin , J. Léonard , N. Goldman

Band geometry plays a substantial role in topological lattice models. The Berry curvature, which resembles the effect of magnetic field in reciprocal space, usually fluctuates throughout the Brillouin zone. Motivated by the analogy with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-11 Daniel Varjas , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Kang Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

Moir\'e flatbands with high Chern numbers (C>1) offer opportunities to study the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects that go beyond the Landau level paradigm with C=1, which remain unexplored yet. Here, we target the novel topological…

A Chern insulator (quantum anomalous Hall insulator) phase is demonstrated to exist in a typical semi-Dirac system, the TiO2/VO2 heterostructure. By combining first-principles calculations with Wannier-based tight-binding model, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-04 Huaqing Huang , Zhirong Liu , Hongbin Zhang , Wenhui Duan , David Vanderbilt

We provide a parton construction of wavefunctions and effective field theories for fractional Chern insulators. We also analyze a strong coupling expansion in lattice gauge theory that enables us to reliably map the parton gauge theory onto…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 John McGreevy , Brian Swingle , Ky-Anh Tran