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Fractional Chern insulators are the proposed phases of matter mimicking the physics of fractional quantum Hall states on a lattice without an overall magnetic field. The notion of Floquet fractional Chern insulators refers to the potential…

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) were proposed theoretically about a decade ago. These exotic states of matter are fractional quantum Hall states realized when a nearly flat Chern band is partially filled, even in the absence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ying Ran

We investigate an interaction-driven transition between crystalline and liquid states of strongly correlated spinless fermions within topological flat bands at low density (with filling factors $\nu=1/5$, $1/7$, $1/9$). Using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-10 Michał Kupczyński , Błażej Jaworowski , Arkadiusz Wójs

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 Hofstadter model is a popular choice for theorists investigating the fractional quantum Hall effect on lattices, due to its simplicity, infinite selection of topological flat bands, and increasing applicability to real materials. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-09 Bartholomew Andrews , Titus Neupert , Gunnar Möller

Moir\'e flat bands in rhombohedral multilayer graphene provide a platform for exploring interaction-driven topological phases, where a single isolated band often forms a Chern band. However, non-Abelian degenerate Chern bands with internal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Taketo Uchida , Takuto Kawakami , Mikito Koshino

The problem of finding the minimum-energy configuration of particles on a lattice, subject to a generic short-ranged repulsive interaction, is studied analytically. The study is relevant to charge ordered states of interacting fermions, as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 G. I. Watson

Motivated by a recent experiment reporting the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in twisted ${\rm MoTe}_2$, we investigate microscopically the prospects of realizing exotic topologically ordered states beyond conventional quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

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

We develop a mean-field theory of the stability of fractional Chern insulators based on the dipole picture of composite fermions (CFs). We construct CFs by binding vortices to Bloch electrons and derive a CF single-particle Hamiltonian that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Xiaodong Hu , Ying Ran , Di Xiao

For various two dimensional lattices such as honeycomb, kagome, and square-octagon, gauge conventions (string gauge) realizing minimum magnetic fluxes that are consistent with the lattice periodicity are explicitly given. Then many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-18 Koji Kudo , Toshikaze Kariyado , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states or fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states have been studied on two-dimensional (2D) flat lattices with different boundary conditions. Here, we propose the geometry-dependent FCI/FQAH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

Fermions hopping on a hexagonal lattice represent one of the most active research field in condensed matter since the discovery of graphene in 2004 and its numerous applications. Another exciting aspect of the interplay between geometry and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-29 Sylvain Capponi

Abelian Chern-Simons-Maxwell theory can emerge from the bosonisation of the 2+1-dimensional Thirring model that describes interacting Dirac fermions. Here we show how the Thirring model manifests itself in the low energy limit of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Giandomenico Palumbo , Jiannis K. Pachos

Fractionalization in ideal Chern bands and non-Hermitian topological physics are two active but so far separate research directions. Merging these, we generalize the notion of ideal Chern bands to the non-Hermitian realm and uncover several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jiong-Hao Wang , Christopher Ekman , Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We numerically study amorphous analogues of a two-dimensional photonic Chern insulator. The amorphous lattices consist of gyromagnetic rods that break time-reversal symmetry, with the lattice sites generated by a close-packing algorithm.…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-20 Shampy Mansha , Y. D. Chong

The interplay of topology and non-Hermiticity has led to diverse, exciting manifestations in a plethora of systems. In this work, we systematically investigate the role of non-Hermiticity in the Chern insulating Haldane model on a dice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Ronika Sarkar , Arka Bandyopadhyay , Awadhesh Narayan

Recent experiments in moir\'e materials have observed fractional Chern insulators (FCI) at zero magnetic field, providing an opportunity to study the transition from FCI to the more conventional phases such as Fermi liquid (FL) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-31 Ya-Hui Zhang

We study phases of itinerant anyons when hole-doping Laughlin-like states in fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). In light of the recent observation of time-reversal-broken superconductivity near FCIs in van der Waals materials, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 Tevž Lotrič , Steven H. Simon