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The realization of interacting topological states of matter such as fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in cold atom systems has recently come within experimental reach due to the engineering of optical lattices with synthetic gauge fields…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-03 Johannes Motruk , Ilyoun Na

The fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) observed in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattices have a unique origin contrary to theoretical expectations: their non-interacting band structure is gapless, unlike…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Yves H. Kwan , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

In this work, we propose a new and simple model that supports Chern semimetals. These new gapless topological phases share several properties with the Chern insulators like a well-defined Chern number associated to each band, topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Giandomenico Palumbo , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis

We investigate numerically different phases that can occur at half filling in the lowest and the first excited Landau levels in wide-well twodimensional electron systems exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. Within a twocomponent model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 N. Thiebaut , N. Regnault , M. O. Goerbig

A fractional quantized Hall state with filling fraction $\nu = p/(2mp+1)$ can be modeled as an integer quantized Hall state of transformed fermions, interacting with a Chern-Simons field. The electromagnetic response function for these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Steven H. Simon , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study the stability of spin-resolved Landau levels at electron filling factor $\nu=n+1/2$, where n is a positive integer. Representing the half-filled topmost Landau level by fermions and the n filled inner Landau levels by n bosons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ziqiang Wang

Stationary solutions of the Chern-Simons effective field theory for the fractional quantum Hall systems with edges are presented for Hall bar, disk and annulus. In the infinitely long Hall bar geometry (non compact case), the charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Shiraishi , Y. Avishai , M. Kohmoto

Recent work demonstrated that in the long wavelength limit the linear response of a Chern insulator to finite-frequency electric fields is the sum of two terms: A general frequency-dependent Kubo contribution that is present irrespective of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Matthew Albert , Javier Sivianes , Jason G. Kattan , Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz , J. E. Sipe

The Chern-Simons approach has been widely used to explain fractional quantum Hall states in the framework of trial wave functions. In the present paper, we generalise the concept of Chern-Simons transformations to systems with any number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 W. Beugeling , M. O. Goerbig , C. Morais Smith

We report the theoretical discovery of a large class of 2D tight-binding models containing nearly-flat bands with nonzero Chern numbers. In contrast with previous studies, where nonlocal hoppings are usually required, the Hamiltonians of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Kai Sun , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Hosho Katsura , S. Das Sarma

We present numerical evidence of an interaction-driven quantum Hall plateau transition between a $|C|>1$ Chern Insulator (CI) and a $\nu = 1/3$ Laughlin state in the Harper-Hofstadter model. We study the model at flux densities $p/q$, where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-02 Leon Schoonderwoerd , Frank Pollmann , Gunnar Möller

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) with crystalline symmetry possess topological invariants that fundamentally have no analog in continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we demonstrate through numerical calculations on model wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

A large number of recent works point to the emergence of intriguing analogs of fractional quantum Hall states in lattice models due to effective interactions in nearly flat bands with Chern number C=1. Here, we provide an intuitive and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz

We study the static structure factor of the fractional Chern insulator Laughlin-like state and provide analytical forms for this quantity in the long-distance limit. In the course of this we identify averaged over Brillouin zone Fubini…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-28 E. Dobardzic , M. V. Milovanovic , N. Regnault

Helical trilayer graphene realizes a versatile moir\'e system for exploring correlated topological states emerging from high Chern bands. Motivated by recent experimental observations of anomalous Hall effects at fractional fillings of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Sen Niu , Jason Alicea , D. N. Sheng , Yang Peng

The low-energy collective excitations of semiconductors and insulators often couple strongly to light, allowing them to be probed optically. We argue here that in fractional Chern insulators intra-band collective excitations are dark in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-05 Tobias M. R. Wolf , Yung-Chun Chao , Allan H. MacDonald , Jung Jung Su

In this paper we construct fully symmetric wavefunctions for the spin-polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCI) and time-reversal-invariant fractional topological insulators (FTI) in two dimensions using the parton approach. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-23 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ying Ran

We introduce a second-quantized field theory for Chern insulators in which the Hamiltonian features a static vector potential that has the periodicity of the crystal's lattice and spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry in the system's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jason G. Kattan , J. E. Sipe

We study the charge transport of the noninteracting electron gas in a two-dimensional quantum Hall system with Anderson-type impurities at zero temperature. We prove that there exist localized states of the bulk order in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tohru Koma

The chiral Luttinger model for the edges of the fractional quantum Hall effect is obtained as the low energy limit of the Chern-Simons theory for the two dimensional system. In particular we recover the Kac-Moody algebra for the creation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dror Orgad