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The discovery of Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs) in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ has sparked significant interest in fractional topological matter without external magnetic fields. Unlike the flat dispersion of Landau levels, moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Tianhong Lu , Luiz H. Santos

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) are exotic phases of matter realized at partial filling of a Chern band that host fractionally charged anyon excitations. Recent numerical studies in several microscopic models reveal that increasing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhengyan Darius Shi , T. Senthil

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) typically emerge in topological flat bands and are regarded as lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states. Conventionally, the flat-band wavefunctions that support FCIs are expected to mimic the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Moru Song , Kai Chang

Synthetic dimensions provide a powerful route to engineer topological lattice models in ultracold atomic systems, but they contain intrinsic nonlocal interactions along the synthetic direction. We investigate an extended Harper-Hofstadter…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-18 Patrick Liam Geraghty , Alberto Nardin , Leonardo Mazza , Matteo Rizzi

We show how the phases of interacting particles in topological flat bands, known as fractional Chern insulators, can be adiabatically connected to incompressible fractional quantum Hall liquids in the lowest Landau-level of an externally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Thomas Scaffidi , Gunnar Moller

Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

Non-Abelian (NA) fractional topological states with quasi-particles obeying NA braiding statistics have attracted intensive attentions for both its fundamental nature and the prospect for topological quantum computation. To date, there are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Hong Yao , Yi-Fei Wang

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

Lattice generalizations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, called fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), have been extensively investigated in strongly correlated systems. Despite many efforts, previous studies have not revealed all of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-28 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have attracted intensive attention for the realization of fractional quantum Hall states in the absence of an external magnetic field. Most of FCIs have been proposed on two-dimensional (2D) Euclidean…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-11 Ai-Lei He , Lu Qi , Yongjun Liu , Yi-Fei Wang

We report the first numerical observation of composite fermion (CF) states in fractional Chern insulators (FCI) using exact diagonalization. The ruby lattice Chern insulator model for both fermions and bosons exhibits a clear signature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Tianhan Liu , C. Repellin , B. Andrei Bernevig , N. Regnault

It has been recently realized that strong interactions in topological Bloch bands give rise to the appearance of novel states of matter. Here we study connections between these systems -- fractional Chern insulators and the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-28 Zhao Liu , D. L. Kovrizhin , Emil J. Bergholtz

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…

Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analogue of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Recent experiments have demonstrated the existence of FCIs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Minxuan Wang , Oskar Vafek , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Fractional Chern insulators arise in topologically nontrivial flat bands, characterized by an integer Chern number C that corresponds to the number of dissipationless edge states in the non-interacting regime. Higher Chern numbers can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Ying-Xing Ding , Wen-Tong Li , Li-Min Zhang , Yu-Biao Wu , Duanlu Zhou , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

We report the observation of a new series of Abelian and non-Abelian topological states in fractional Chern insulators (FCI). The states appear at bosonic filling nu= k/(C+1) (k, C integers) in several lattice models, in fractionally filled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 A. Sterdyniak , C. Repellin , B. Andrei Bernevig , N. Regnault

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-04 Ching Hua Lee , Xiao-Liang Qi

We propose a simple scheme for the realization of a topological quasienergy band structure with ultracold atoms in a periodically driven optical square lattice. It is based on a circular lattice shaking in the presence of a superlattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-10 Mantas Račiūnas , Giedrius Žlabys , André Eckardt , Egidijus Anisimovas

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