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We argue that a correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field analogous to the Laughlin state at filling $1/m$. We introduce a variant of the Laughlin wavefunction for electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Yichen Hu , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane

Topologically ordered quantum liquids are highly sought-after quantum phases of matter, and recently, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) joined the few experimental realizations of such phases. Here, we ask whether a gapped classical,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Hao Chen , Dan Mao , Andrea Kouta Dagnino , Glenn Wagner , Mark H. Fischer , Juraj Hasik , Eun-Ah Kim , Titus Neupert

We develop an interpretable, data-driven framework to quantify how single-particle band geometry governs the stability of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Using large-scale exact diagonalization, we evaluate an FCI metric that yields a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Oriol Mayné i Comas , André Grossi Fonseca , Sachin Vaidya , Marin Soljačić

We present a theory of fractional Chern insulator stabilization against charge-ordered states. We argue that the phase competition is captured by an effective interaction range, which depends on both the bare interaction range and quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-19 Peleg Emanuel , Anna Keselman , Yuval Oreg

We present numerical evidence of an interaction-driven quantum Hall plateau transition between a $|C|>1$ Chern Insulator (CI) and a $\nu = 1/3$ Laughlin state in the Harper-Hofstadter model. We study the model at flux densities $p/q$, where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-02 Leon Schoonderwoerd , Frank Pollmann , Gunnar Möller

We report the theoretical discovery of a systematic scheme to produce topological flat bands (TFBs) with arbitrary Chern numbers. We find that generically a multi-orbital high Chern number TFB model can be constructed by considering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Shuo Yang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Kai Sun , S. Das Sarma

We have studied the fractional quantum Hall states on the surface of a topological insulator thin film in an external magnetic field, where the Dirac fermion nature of the charge carriers have been experimentally established only recently.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Using the infinite density matrix renormalization group method on an infinite cylinder geometry, we characterize the $1/3$ fractional Chern insulator state in the Haldane honeycomb lattice model at $\nu=1/3$ filling of the lowest band and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-06 Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Motruk , Michael P. Zaletel , Frank Pollmann

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

A recent experiment observes a series of quantum spin Hall effects in transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e MoTe$_2$ [K. Kang, et. al, Nature 628, 522-526 (2024)]. Among them, the vanishing Hall signal at the filling factor $\nu=3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Feng Chen , Wei-Wei Luo , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng

We show that collective excitations and optical responses of moir\'e fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) drastically differ from those of standard fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in a Landau level. By constructing a variational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Nisarga Paul , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Aidan Reddy , Liang Fu

One of the most spectacular experimental findings in the fractional quantum Hall effect is evidence for an emergent Fermi surface when the electron density is nearly half the density of magnetic flux quanta ($\nu = 1/2$). The seminal work…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-14 Scott D. Geraedts , Michael P. Zaletel , Roger S. K. Mong , Max A. Metlitski , Ashvin Vishwanath , Olexei I. Motrunich

In topological bands, it is impossible to construct exponentially localized Wannier functions while preserving the symmetries. Instead, in quantum Hall systems, one can define an overcomplete basis of spatially localized coherent states. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Nobuyuki Okuma

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 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 investigate the many-body ground states in a family of fractionally-filled bands where the Berry curvature fluctuations can be tuned while maintaining ideal quantum geometry. We numerically find that the neutral gap of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jingtian Shi , Jennifer Cano , Nicolás Morales-Durán

Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene flakes with a substrate induced moir\'e potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional Quantum Hall states in the absence of an applied magnetic field. Surprisingly,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-15 Junkai Dong , Taige Wang , Tianle Wang , Tomohiro Soejima , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath , Daniel E. Parker

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

Interaction-induced topological systems have attracted a growing interest for their exotic properties going beyond the single-particle picture of topological insulators. In particular, the interplay between strong correlations and finite…

We consider a two dimensional electron system in an external magnetic field at and near an even denominator Landau level filling fraction. Using a fermionic Chern--Simons approach we study the description of the system's low energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ady Stern , Bertrand I. Halperin