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The experimental discoveries of fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects under zero magnetic fields in both transition metal dichalcogenide and pentalayer graphene moir\'e superlattices have aroused significant research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhongqing Guo , Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

We investigate the fate of hardcore bosons in a Harper-Hofstadter model which was experimentally realized by Aidelsburger et al. [Nature Physics 11 , 162 (2015)] at half filling of the lowest band. We discuss the stability of an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-20 Johannes Motruk , Frank Pollmann

The experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has preceded theoretical prediction. Supported by large-scale first principles relaxation…

Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a prime example of topological quantum many-body phenomena, arising from the interplay between strong electron correlation, topological order, and time reversal symmetry breaking. Recently, a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Zhurun Ji , Heonjoon Park , Mark E. Barber , Chaowei Hu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jiun-Haw Chu , Xiaodong Xu , Zhi-xun Shen

Enhancing the many-body gap of a fractional state is crucial for realizing robust fractional excitations. For fractional Chern insulators, existing studies suggest that making flat Chern bands closely resemble the lowest Landau level (LLL)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Yitong Zhang , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Daniel E. Parker , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

A flat band with Chern number $C=0$, and well isolated from the rest of Hilbert space by a gap much larger than interaction strength, is a context that has not been regarded as relevant for fractional quantum Hall physics. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zuzhang Lin , Hongyu Lu , Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Recent theoretical works have demonstrated the realization of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states (also called fractional Chern insulators) in topological flat band lattice models without an external magnetic field. Such newly proposed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-13 Wei-Wei Luo , Wen-Chao Chen , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

The experimental realization of the Harper-Hofstadter model in ultra-cold atomic gases has placed fractional states of matter in these systems within reach---a fractional Chern insulator state (FCI) is expected to emerge for sufficiently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-13 Xiao-Yu Dong , Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Motruk , Frank Pollmann

Recently it was shown that the topological properties of $2D$ and $3D$ topological insulators are captured by a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ chiral anomaly in the boundary field theory. It remained, however, unclear whether the anomaly survives…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-05 Maciej Koch-Janusz , Zohar Ringel

We propose the realization of interaction-driven insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Through extensive many-body exact diagonalization, we provide compelling evidence for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Yuchen Liu , Zheng Zhu

An interesting route to the realization of topological Chern bands in ultracold atomic gases is through the use of optical flux lattices. These models differ from the tight-binding real-space lattice models of Chern insulators that are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Sterdyniak , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nigel R. Cooper , N. Regnault

Fractional Chern insulators are lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states that realize fractionalized quasiparticles without an external magnetic field. A key strategy to understand and design these phases is to map Chern bands onto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohao Li , Yunze Ouyang , Fengcheng Wu

Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated by recent bulk observations of fractional Chern insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Yan-Qi Wang , Johannes Motruk , Andrey Grankin , Mohammad Hafezi

A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ moir\'e superlattices [Nature 622, 63-68 (2023)]. The experimental observation is at an unexpected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Chong Wang , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yuchi He , Xiaodong Xu , Ying Ran , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

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

Recent experimental advances have uncovered fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states in twisted MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) systems under zero magnetic field. Understanding the interaction effects on topological phases within realistic model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Jialin Chen , Qiaoyi Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Wei Li

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

We consider a model of hard-core bosons on a lattice, half-filling a Chern band such that the system has a continuous transition between a fractional Chern insulator (FCI) and a superfluid state (SF) depending on the bandwidth to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Tevž Lotrič , Steven H. Simon

Topological nontrivial bands can be realized via Rydberg-dressed neutral atoms. We propose a two-dimensional hard-core boson model with a topological ground enrgy at band on a honeycomb lattice, where the particle hopping is realized via…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-25 Yang Zhao , Xiao-Feng Shi