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The realization of fractional Chern insulators opens up the possibility of exploring fractionally charged excitations and anyonic statistics in the absence of a magnetic field. One of the central questions is whether lattice-based systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zexu Li , Wenxuan Wang , Fajie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Qiu Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jie Wang , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

We study the extended Bose-Hubbard model on the square lattice at half filling as a function of next-nearest neighbor hopping amplitude and interaction strength. To variationally map out the phase diagram of this model, we develop a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-22 Hassan Shapourian , Bryan K. Clark

We develop a general algebraic scheme to decompose fractional quantum Hall (FQH) wave functions based on the operator contraction multiplication. By introducing fermionic and bosonic operators and establishing three fundamental contraction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Dong-Hao Guan , Licheng Wang , Yuan Zhou , Ai-Lei He , Yi-Fei Wang

We propose a set of schemes to create and probe fractionally charged excitations of a fractional Chern insulator state in an optical lattice. This includes the creation of localized quasiparticles and quasiholes using both static local…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-03 Mantas Račiūnas , F. Nur Ünal , Egidijus Anisimovas , André Eckardt

The standard theoretical framework for fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAH) assumes an isolated flat Chern band in the single particle level. In this paper we challenges this paradigm for the FQAH recently observed in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-12 Boran Zhou , Hui Yang , Ya-Hui Zhang

We propose a unifying model for FQHE which on the one hand connects it to recent developments in string theory and on the other hand leads to new predictions for the principal series of experimentally observed FQH systems with filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Cumrun Vafa

We present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect. While the latter conventionally arises in semiconductor heterostructures at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

We establish the quantum mechanics of composite fermions based on the dipole picture initially proposed by Read. It comprises three complimentary components: a wave equation for determining the wave functions of a composite fermion in ideal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Junren Shi

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 introduce a supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory whose low energy physics is that of the fractional quantum Hall effect. The supersymmetry allows us to solve the theory analytically. We quantise the vortices and, by relating their dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 David Tong , Carl Turner

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in ideal flat bands with Chern number $C$ are commonly understood as color-entangled states constructed from $C$ copies of the lowest Landau level. In realistic moir\'e systems, however, the band geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Moru Song , Kai Chang

We analyze a recently proposed method to create fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states of atoms confined in optical lattices [A. S{\o}rensen {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 94} 086803 (2005)]. Extending the previous work, we investigate…

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

We consider fractional quantum Hall states built on Laughlin's original N-body wave-functions, i.e., they are of the form holomorphic times gaussian and vanish when two particles come close, with a given polynomial rate. Such states appear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

The pseudopotentials describing the interactions of quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states are studied. Rules for the identification of incompressible quantum fluid ground states are found, based upon the form of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

We construct many particle Hamiltonians for which the Laughlin and Jain wavefunctions are exact ground states. The Hamiltonians involve fermions in a magnetic field and with inter-particle interactions. For the Laughlin wave-functions,the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ranjan K. Ghosh , Sumathi Rao

Recently, it was shown that fractional quantum Hall states can be defined on fractal lattices. Proposed exact parent Hamiltonians for these states are nonlocal and contain three-site terms. In this work, we look for simpler, approximate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-30 Błażej Jaworowski , Michael Iversen , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We propose a pseudo-potential Hamiltonian for the Zhang-Hu's generalized fractional quantum Hall states to be the exact and unique ground states. Analogously to Laughlin's quasi-hole (quasi-particle), the excitations in the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Chyh-Hong Chern

Fractional Chern insulators are theoretically predicted states of electronic matter with emergent topological order. They exhibit the same universal properties as the fractional quantum Hall effect, but dispose of the need to apply a strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-08 Adolfo G. Grushin , Álvaro Gómez-León , Titus Neupert

We develop a theory for the pseudorelativistic fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene, which is based on a multicomponent abelian Chern-Simons theory in the fermionic functional integral approach. Calculations are performed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Christian Fräßdorf