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The discovery of zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials has attracted intense interest in the interplay between topology and correlations. Here, we demonstrate that fractionalized topological order can emerge…

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Certain insulating materials with strong spin-orbit coupling can conduct currents along their edges or surfaces. This phenomenon arises from the non-trivial topological properties of the electronic band-structure, and is somewhat similar to…

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In this paper we explore the effects of quasiperiodicity in paradigmatic models of Chern insulators. We identify a plethora of topological phase transitions and characterize them based on spectral and localization properties. Contrary to…

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Fractional Chern insulators are new realizations of fractional quantum Hall states in lattice systems without orbital magnetic field. These states can be mapped onto conventional fractional quantum Hall states through the Wannier state…

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Topological insulators are a new phase of matter with the distinctive characteristics of an insulating bulk and conducting edge states. Recent theories indicate there even exist topological edge states in the fractal-dimensional lattices,…

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We study a two-dimensional (2D) tight-binding model of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) protected by rotation symmetry. The model is built by stacking two Chern insulators with opposite Chern numbers which transform under conjugate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Shang Liu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Eslam Khalaf

Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Brayden Ware , Itamar Kimchi , S. A. Parameswaran , Bela Bauer

A phenomenological model for the interface between trivial and topological two-dimensional insulators possessing the same band gap is presented. The model depends on three measurable parameters, the energy gap $E_g$, the Fermi velocity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 F. L. Freitas

Fractionally charged elementary excitations, the quasi-electron and quasi-hole, are one of the hallmarks of the fractional Chern insulator (FCI). In this work, we observe that spontaneous spin polarization in twisted MoTe$_2$ leads to…

The unique properties of spin-polarized surface or edge states in topological insulators (TIs) make these quantum coherent systems interesting from the point of view of both fundamental physics and their implementation in low power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Juan Pedro Cascales , Isidoro Martınez , Ferhat Katmis , Cui-Zu Chang , Ruben Guerrero , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Farkhad G. Aliev

Transition--metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) uniquely combine topological electronic states realized without external magnetic fields with a strong optical response arising from long--lived excitons. Motivated by this confluence, we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-28 Tianhong Lu , Luiz H. Santos

We elucidate how Chern and topological insulators fulfill an area law for the entanglement entropy. By explicit construction of a family of lattice Hamiltonians, we are able to demonstrate that the area law contribution can be tuned to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. C. Budich , J. Eisert , E. J. Bergholtz

The roton-triggered charge-density-wave (CDW)is widely studied in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) and fractional Chern insulator (FCI) systems, and there also exist field theoretical and numerical realizations of continuous transition from…

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Superconductivity arising from fully spin-polarized, repulsively interacting electrons can host intrinsically chiral Cooper pairs and Majorana zero modes, yet no concrete microscopic route to such a state has been established. Motivated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-29 Taige Wang , Michael P. Zaletel

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…

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…

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The quadrupole insulator is a well-known instance of higher-order topological insulators in two dimensions, which possesses midgap corner states in both the energy spectrum and entanglement spectrum. Here, by constructing and exploring a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

We propose characterization of the three-dimensional topological insulator by using the Chern number for the entanglement Hamiltonian (entanglement Chern number). Here we take the extensive spin partition of the system, that pulls out the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Hiromu Araki , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state is a topological state of matter resulting from the many-body effect of interacting electrons and is of vast interest in fundamental physics. The experimental observation of topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Dong-Xia Qu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava

Topological insulators (TIs) are a class of materials which are insulating in their bulk form yet, upon introduction of an a boundary or edge, e.g. by abruptly terminating the material, may exhibit spontaneous current along their boundary.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein