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The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics. It is described by a simple Laughlin wavefunction and has been thoroughly studied both theoretically and experimentally. In lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-07 Anne E. B. Nielsen , German Sierra , J. Ignacio Cirac

Composite fermions (CFs) of the fractional quantum Hall effect are described as spherical products of electron and vortex spinors, built from underlying L=1/2 ladder operators aligned so that the spinor angular momenta Le and Lv are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 W. C. Haxton , Daniel J. Haxton , Byungmin Kang

The Kohn-Sham density functional method for the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect has recently been developed by mapping the strongly interacting electrons into an auxiliary system of weakly interacting composite fermions (CFs) that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-04 Yi Yang , Songyang Pu , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

A $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to a Wilson fermion on a $2+1$ dimensional cubic lattice is known to exhibit Chern insulator like topological transitions as a function of the the ratio $M/R$ where $M$ is the fermion mass and $R$ is the Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Srimoyee Sen

Can a Laughlin anyon fluid become a topological superconductor? We answer this question for a $\nu=1/3$ fractional Chern insulator (FCI) using a $U(3)$ infrared parton theory. Three charge-$e/3$ constituents form the electron, while three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Taige Wang

We study quantum Hall states for two-component particles (hardcore bosons and fermions) loading in topological lattice models. By tuning the interplay of interspecies and intraspecies interactions, we demonstrate that two-component…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-29 Tian-Sheng Zeng , W. Zhu , D. N. Sheng

The discovery and understanding of new quantum phases has time and again transformed both fundamental physics and technology, yet progress often relies on slow, intuition-based theoretical considerations or experimental serendipity. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 André Grossi Fonseca , Eric Wang , Sachin Vaidya , Patrick J. Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath , Marin Soljačić

Moir\'e materials provide a remarkably tunable platform for topological and strongly correlated quantum phases of matter. Very recently, the first zero field Abelian fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have been experimentally demonstrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-26 Hui Liu , Raul Perea-Causin , Emil J. Bergholtz

The composite fermion (CF) theory gives both a phenomenological description for many fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, as well as a microscopic construction for large scale numerical calculation of these topological phases. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Bo Yang

Graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field is a unique attraction for investigations of the fractional quantum Hall (fQH) states with odd and even denominators of the fraction. Most of the attempts to understand Graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Saurabh Maiti , Tigran Sedrakyan

Chiral fermions in solid state feature "Fermi arc" states, connecting the surface projections of the bulk chiral nodes. The surface Fermi arc is a signature of nontrivial bulk topology. Unconventional chiral fermions with an extensive Fermi…

A fractional Chern insulator is thought to emerge from the competition between one-particle band topology and strong repulsive interactions. As an attempt to study lattice models of fractional Chern insulators, we introduce a biorthogonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-26 Nobuyuki Okuma

We observe geometric resonance features of composite fermions on the flanks of the even denominator {\nu} = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state in high-mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a superlattice potential is a highly tunable system predicted to realize isolated topological flat bands. In this work we calculate the band structure and quantum geometry of bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Dathan Ault-McCoy , M. Nabil Y. Lhachemi , Aaron Dunbrack , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

We study Chern numbers to characterize the ground state of strongly interacting systems on a lattice. This method allows us to perform a numerical characterization of bosonic fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on a lattice where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Mohammad Hafezi , Anders S. Sorensen , Mikhail D. Lukin , Eugene Demler

Recent variational studies have demonstrated that the strongly correlated ground states of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect can be captured using machine learning approaches starting from no prior knowledge of the underlying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Mytraya Gattu

We construct an interacting lattice model for twisted $\mathrm{MoTe}_{2}$ bilayers at a twist angle of approximately 3.7\degree. We use the infinite density matrix renormalization group (iDMRG) in a cylinder geometry to identify a variety…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Yuchi He , S. H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behavior controlled by topology. We predict that the \nu=1/2 fractional Chern insulator arises naturally in a two-dimensional array of driven, dipolar-interacting spins. As a specific…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-08 Norman Y. Yao , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Chris R. Laumann , Andreas M. Läuchli , Jun Ye , Mikhail D. Lukin

We propose a "minimal" fractional topological insulator (mFTI), motivated by the recent experimental report on the signatures of FTI at total filling factor $\nu_{\rm tot} = 3$ in a transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'{e} system. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-17 Chao-Ming Jian , Meng Cheng , Cenke Xu

Moir\'e materials have emerged as a powerful platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. While recent experiments have unveiled fractional Chern insulators exhibiting the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect based on electrons or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz