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Numerical results for the energy spectra of $N$ electrons on a spherical surface are used as input data to determine the quasiparticle energies and the pairwise ``Fermi liquid'' interactions of composite Fermion (CF) excitations in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Sitko , S. N. Yi , K. S. Yi , J. J. Quinn

Composite fermions in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are believed to form a Fermi sea of weakly interacting particles at half filling $\nu=1/2$. Recently, it was proposed (D. T. Son, Phys. Rev. X 5, 031027 (2015)) that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Pertti J. Hakonen

We investigate topological phase transitions in Chern insulators within three-band models, focusing on the empty band and lowest band populated by spinless fermions. We consider Lieb and kagome lattices and notice phase transitions driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-19 P. Potasz , B. Jaworowski , M. Kupczyński , M. Brzezińska , P. Kaczmarkiewicz , A. Wójs

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under strong magnetic fields, interactions can cause fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Bringing two 2D conductors to proximity, a new set of correlated states can emerge due to interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand Halperin , Philip Kim

We numerically investigate the properties of the quasihole excitations above the bosonic fractional Chern insulator state at filling $\nu = 1/2$, in the specific case of the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian with hard-core interactions. For…

We develop an interpretable, data-driven framework to quantify how single-particle band geometry governs the stability of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Using large-scale exact diagonalization, we evaluate an FCI metric that yields a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Oriol Mayné i Comas , André Grossi Fonseca , Sachin Vaidya , Marin Soljačić

We investigate the stability of the one-dimensional limit of $\nu=1/3$ Laughlin-like fractional Chern insulator with respect to the interband interaction. We propose a construction for the excitations in the infinite-interaction case and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-24 Błażej Jaworowski , Piotr Kaczmarkiewicz , Paweł Potasz , Arkadiusz Wójs

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a canonical example of electron-electron interactions producing new ground states in many-body systems. Most FQH studies have focused on the lowest Landau level (LL), whose fractional states are…

We construct a class of lattice Hamiltonians whose single-particle spectrum consists of an arbitrary number of exactly degenerate flat bands that reproduce the analytic structure of the first $p$ Landau levels restricted to the lattice.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Joseph R. Cruise , Alexander Seidel

We provide a detailed study of Abelian quasiparticles of valley polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) residing in the top valence band of twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) at hole filling $\nu_h=2/3$. We construct a tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhao Liu , Bohao Li , Yuhao Shi , Fengcheng Wu

Chern insulator or quantum anomalous Hall state is a topological state with integer Hall conductivity but in absence of Landau level. It had been well established on various two-dimensional lattices with periodic structure. Here, we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ai-Lei He , Lu-Rong Ding , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids host quasiparticle excitations that carry a fraction of the electronic charge. Moreover, in contrast to bosons and fermions that carry exchange statistics of $0$ and $\pi$ respectively, these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-30 Koyena Bose , Ajit C. Balram

The quantum metric of single-particle wave functions in topological flatbands plays a crucial role in determining the stability of fractional Chern insulating (FCI) states. Here, we unravel that the quantum metric causes the many-body Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-13 Ang-Kun Wu , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Motivated by recent observations of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in the vicinity of superconducting (SC) phases, we study fractional quantum (anomalous) Hall-superconductor heterostructures in the presence of $U(1)$ order-parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-31 Steffen Bollmann , Andreas Haller , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Thomas L. Schmidt , Elio J. König

Composite fermions (CFs), exotic quasi-particles formed by pairing an electron and an even number of magnetic flux quanta emerge at high magnetic fields in an interacting electron system, and can explain phenomena such as the fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 K. A. Villegas Rosales , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

In the absence of time reversal symmetry, orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of topology and interactions, with particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators where topological edge states carry large equilibrium…

We argue that a correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field analogous to the Laughlin state at filling $1/m$. We introduce a variant of the Laughlin wavefunction for electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Yichen Hu , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane

In the framework of Hofstadter`s approach we provide a detailed analysis of a realization of exotic topological states such as the Chern insulator with large Chern numbers. In a transverse homogeneous magnetic field a one-particle spectrum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor N. Karnaukhov

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

The Halperin-Lee-Read Fermi sea of composite fermions (CFs) at half-filled lowest Landau level is the realization of a fascinating non-Fermi liquid metallic phase. Remarkably, experiments have found that as the width of the quantum well is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-02 Anirban Sharma , Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain