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Two-dimensional periodically driven systems can host an unconventional topological phase unattainable for equilibrium systems, termed the Anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator (AFAI). The AFAI features a quasi-energy spectrum with chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Carolyn Zhang , Tobias Holder , Netanel H. Lindner , Mark Rudner , Erez Berg

We propose to describe bulk wave functions of fractional quantum Hall states in terms of correlators of non-unitary b/c-spin systems. These yield a promising conformal field theory analogon of the composite fermion picture of Jain.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Flohr , Klaus Osterloh

Motivated by the close analogy with the fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs), fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are envisioned as strongly correlated, incompressible states emerging in a fractionally filled, (nearly) flat band with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Kwon Park

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

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

In this paper we study the conditions under which an N-electron wave function for a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state can be viewed as N-point correlation function in a conformal field theory (CFT). Several concrete examples are presented…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiao-Gang Wen , Yong-Shi Wu

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) realized in fractional quantum Hall systems subject to a periodic potential are topological phases of matter for which space group symmetries play an important role. In particular, lattice dislocations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Christina Knapp , Eric M. Spanton , Andrea F. Young , Chetan Nayak , Michael P. Zaletel

The Kohn-Sham density functional method for the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect has recently been developed by mapping the strongly interacting electrons into an auxiliary system of weakly interacting composite fermions (CFs) that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-04 Yi Yang , Songyang Pu , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

Motivated by the recent experimental breakthrough on the observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects in semiconductor and graphene moir\'{e} materials, we explore the rich physics associated with the coexistence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-27 Xue-Yang Song , Chao-Ming Jian , Liang Fu , Cenke Xu

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

The recent theoretical discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has provided an important new way to realize topologically ordered states in lattice models. In earlier works, on-site and nearest neighbor Hubbard-like interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-05 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Eliot Kapit

We perform an exact-diagonalization study of quasihole excitations for the two-component Halperin $(221)$ state in the lowest Landau level and for several $\nu=1/3$ bosonic fractional Chern insulators in topological flat bands with Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-25 Błażej Jaworowski , Nicolas Regnault , Zhao Liu

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

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

We show that there is an emergent lattice description for the continuous fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, with a generalised set of few-body coherent states. In particular, model Hamiltonians of the FQH effect are equivalent to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Bo Yang

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a macroscopic manifestation of strong electron-electron interactions. Even denominator FQH states (FQHSs) at half-filling are particularly interesting as they are predicted to host non-Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Tanima Chanda , Simrandeep Kaur , Harsimran Singh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Manish Jain , Udit Khanna , Ajit C. Balram , Aveek Bid

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

We provide a detailed study of Abelian quasiparticles of valley polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) residing in the top valence band of twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) at hole filling $\nu_h=2/3$. We construct a tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhao Liu , Bohao Li , Yuhao Shi , Fengcheng Wu

The recent experimental observation of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in rhombohedral multilayer graphene has attracted significant attention. One of the most intriguing observations is that the FQAH states at various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 Ke Huang , Sankar Das Sarma , Xiao Li

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