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Condensed matter realization of a single Dirac cone of fermions in two dimensions is a long-standing issue. Here we report the discovery of a single gapless Dirac cone of half-quantized Hall conductance in a magnetically-doped topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Jin-Yu Zou , Rui Chen , Bo Fu , Huan-Wen Wang , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

We study quantization conditions of the Hall conductivity for a two dimensional system described by a double exchange Hamiltonian with and without an external magnetic field. This is obtained by an extension of the topological arguments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Atsuo Satou , Masanori Yamanaka

We investigate the Hall conductance of a two-dimensional Chern insulator coupled to an environment causing gain and loss. Introducing a biorthogonal linear response theory, we show that sufficiently strong gain and loss lead to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Solofo Groenendijk , Thomas L. Schmidt , Tobias Meng

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

We consider the Hall conductivity of two-dimensional non-interacting Bloch electrons when the magnetic flux per unit cell is a rational number $p/q$ where $p$ and $q$ are mutually coprime. We present a counter-example for the naive…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Masaki Oshikawa

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

There is convincing numerical evidence that fractional quantum Hall (FQH)-like ground states arise in fractionally filled Chern bands (FCB). Here we show that the Hamiltonian theory of Composite Fermions (CF) can be as useful in describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

We investigate the ground state properties of a bosonic Harper-Hofstadter model with local interactions on a finite cylindrical lattice with filling fraction $\nu=1/2$. We find that our system supports topologically ordered states by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Paolo Rosson , Michael Lubasch , Martin Kiffner , Dieter Jaksch

We review various features of interacting Abelian topological phases of matter in two spatial dimensions, placing particular emphasis on fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) and fractional topological insulators (FTIs). We highlight aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Thomas Iadecola , Luiz H. Santos , Christopher Mudry

We study $N$-component interacting particles (hardcore bosons and fermions) loaded in topological lattice models with SU$(N)$-invariant interactions based on density matrix renormalization group method. By tuning the interplay of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-24 Tian-Sheng Zeng , D. N. Sheng

Topological invariants are global properties of the ground-state wave function, typically defined as winding numbers in reciprocal space. Over the years, a number of topological markers in real space have been introduced, allowing to map…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

We propose a possible mechanism of topological Hall effect in inhomogeneous superconducting states. In our scenario, the Berry phase effect associated with spatially modulated superconducting order parameter gives rise to a fictitious…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-21 Satoshi Fujimoto

The Hofstadter model is a simple yet powerful Hamiltonian to study quantum Hall physics in a lattice system, manifesting its essential topological states. Lattice dimerization in the Hofstadter model opens an energy gap at half filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Alexander Lau , Carmine Ortix , Jeroen van den Brink

Tunable exciton condensates in two dimensional electron gas systems under strong magnetic field exhibits anomalous Hall transport owing to mutual Coulomb coupling, and have attracted a lot of research activity. Here, we explore another…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-28 Tian-Sheng Zeng , D. N. Sheng , W. Zhu

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

We study the transport properties of a hybrid junction made of a ferromagnetic lead in electrical connection with the helical edge modes of a two-dimensional topological insulator. In this system, the time reversal symmetry, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Francesco Romeo

Haldane's tight-binding model, which describes a Chern insulator in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice, exhibits quantum Hall conductivity without an external magnetic field. Here, we explore an $\alpha -T_{3}$ lattice subjected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Othmane Benhaida , El Hassan Saidi , L. B. Drissi

A brief introduction to topological phases is provided, considering several two-band Hamiltonians in one- and two-dimensions. Relevant concepts of the topological insulator theory, such as: Berry phase, Chern number, and the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-31 Leandro O. Nascimento

A model system is considered where two dimensional electrons are confined by a harmonic potential in one direction, and are free in the other direction. Ground state in strong magnetic fields is investigated through numerical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Daijiro Yoshioka

We formulate a Chern-Simons composite fermion theory for Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs), whereby bare fermions are mapped into composite fermions coupled to a lattice Chern-Simons gauge theory. We apply this construction to a Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-10 Ramanjit Sohal , Luiz H. Santos , Eduardo Fradkin