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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

We investigate a fractional Chern insulator (FCI) candidate arising from Moir\'e bands with higher Chern number C=2 on a magic angle twisted bilayer checkboard lattice (MATBCB). There are two nearly flat low lying bands in the single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Jia-Zheng Ma , Rui-Zhen Huang , Guo-Yi Zhu , Ji-Yao Chen , Dao-Xin Yao

We report the first numerical observation of composite fermion (CF) states in fractional Chern insulators (FCI) using exact diagonalization. The ruby lattice Chern insulator model for both fermions and bosons exhibits a clear signature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Tianhan Liu , C. Repellin , B. Andrei Bernevig , N. Regnault

Fractional Chern insulators arise in topologically nontrivial flat bands, characterized by an integer Chern number C that corresponds to the number of dissipationless edge states in the non-interacting regime. Higher Chern numbers can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Ying-Xing Ding , Wen-Tong Li , Li-Min Zhang , Yu-Biao Wu , Duanlu Zhou , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

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

Lattice generalizations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, called fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), have been extensively investigated in strongly correlated systems. Despite many efforts, previous studies have not revealed all of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-28 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a superlattice potential is a highly tunable system predicted to realize isolated topological flat bands. In this work we calculate the band structure and quantum geometry of bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Dathan Ault-McCoy , M. Nabil Y. Lhachemi , Aaron Dunbrack , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

Topological insulators are a new phase of matter with the distinctive characteristics of an insulating bulk and conducting edge states. Recent theories indicate there even exist topological edge states in the fractal-dimensional lattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Junkai Li , Yeyang Sun , Qingyang Mo , Zhichao Ruan , Zhaoju Yang

Long-range interactions drive some of the rich phenomenology of quasiparticle collective states in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime. We test for analogues in models of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) derived from a screened…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-23 Mengsu Chen , V. W. Scarola

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) with fractionally quantized Hall conductance at fractional fillings and an extended quantum anomalous Hall (EQAH) crystal with an integer quantized Hall conductance over an extended region of doping were…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-03 Zezhu Wei , Ang-Kun Wu , Miguel Gonçalves , Shi-Zeng Lin

Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

The rapid advances in the study of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) raise a fundamental question: while initially discovered in flat Chern bands motivated by their topological equivalence to Landau levels, is single- particle band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Hongyu Lu , Wang Yao

The possibility of realizing lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, so-called fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), in nearly flat topological (Chern) bands has attracted a lot of recent interest. Here, we make the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-16 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

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

Edge excitations are the defining signature of chiral topologically ordered systems. In continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, these excitations are described by the chiral Luttinger liquid ($\chi$LL) theory. Whether this effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Xiao-Han Yang , Ji-Yao Chen , Xiao-Yu Dong

Most fractional quantum Hall states have been traditionally identified within a single energy band, such as the lowest Landau level or topological flat band. As more particles are introduced, they inevitably populate higher energy bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Licheng Wang , Dong-Hao Guan , Ai-Lei He , Shun-Li Yu , Yuan Zhou

The breaking of time-reversal symmetry is a crucial ingredient to topological bands. It can occur intrisically in materials with magnetic order, or be induced by external fields, such as magnetic fields in quantum Hall systems, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Utso Bhattacharya , Swati Chaudhary , Tobias Grass , Allan S. Johnson , Simon Wall , Maciej Lewenstein

Chiral graviton modes are hallmark collective excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) liquids. However, their existence on the lattice, where continuum symmetries that protect them from decay are lost, is still an open and urgent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Min Long , Zeno Bacciconi , Hongyu Lu , Hernan B. Xavier , Zi Yang Meng , Marcello Dalmonte

The quantum metric of single-particle wave functions in topological flatbands plays a crucial role in determining the stability of fractional Chern insulating (FCI) states. Here, we unravel that the quantum metric causes the many-body Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-13 Ang-Kun Wu , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

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