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We study theoretically edge transport of a fractional quantum Hall liquid, in the presence of a quantum dot inside the Hall bar with well controlled electron density and Landau level filling factor \nu, and show that such transport studies…

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It has been recently realized that strong interactions in topological Bloch bands give rise to the appearance of novel states of matter. Here we study connections between these systems -- fractional Chern insulators and the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-28 Zhao Liu , D. L. Kovrizhin , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topological phase transitions go beyond Ginzburg and Landau's paradigm of spontaneous symmetry breaking and occur without an associated local order parameter. Instead, such transitions can be characterized by the emergence of non-local…

The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We demonstrate via exact diagonalization that AA-stacked TMD homobilayers host fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states with fractionally quantized Hall conductance at fractional fillings $n=\frac{1}{3},\, \frac{2}{3}$ and zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Aidan P. Reddy , Faisal F. Alsallom , Yang Zhang , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

The robust quantization of observables in units of universal constants is a hallmark of topological phases. We show that chiral higher order topological insulators (HOTIs), bulk insulators with chiral hinge states, present two unusual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Oscar Pozo , Cécile Repellin , Adolfo G. Grushin

Sixty years ago, Karplus and Luttinger pointed out that quantum particles moving on a lattice could acquire an anomalous transverse velocity in response to a force, providing an explanation for the unusual Hall effect in ferromagnetic…

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

Semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit high mobility, strong spin-orbit coupling, and large effective masses, which simultaneously leads to a rich wealth of Landau quantizations and inherently strong electronic…

Topological quantum phases cannot be characterized by Ginzburg-Landau type order parameters, and are instead described by non-local topological invariants. Experimental platforms capable of realizing such exotic states now include…

Fractional quantum Hall systems (FQH), due to their experimentally observed anyonic topological order, are a main contender for future hardware-implementation of error-protected quantum registers ("topological qbits") subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Hisham Sati , Urs Schreiber

The quantum of heat conductance of ballistic one-dimensional (1D) channels, being gQ=k0T with k0=pi^2*2kB^2/3h (T - temperature, kB - Boltzmann's constant, h - Planck's constant), is an important fundamental constant. While the quantization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Amir Rosenblatt , Yuval Oreg , Dima E. Feldman , Ady Stern , Vladimir Umansky

We study the behavior of two-dimensional electron gas in the fractional quantum Hall regime in the presence of finite layer thickness and correlated disordered potential. Generalizing the Chern number calculation to many-body systems, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xin Wan , D. N. Sheng , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang , R. N. Bhatt , F. D. M. Haldane

The experimental discovery of the fractional Hall conductivity in two-dimensional electron gases revealed new types of quantum particles, called anyons, which are beyond bosons and fermions as they possess fractionalized exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-14 Yan-Cheng Wang , Meng Cheng , William Witczak-Krempa , Zi Yang Meng

A large class of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states can be classified according to their pattern of zeros, which describes the order of zeros in ground state wave functions as various clusters of electrons are brought together. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

We demonstrate the experimental feasibility of incompressible fractional quantum Hall-like states in ultra-cold two dimensional rapidly rotating dipolar Fermi gases. In particular, we argue that the state of the system at filling fraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Baranov , Klaus Osterloh , M. Lewenstein

The experimental discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in tunable moir\'e superlattices has sparked intense interest in exploring the interplay between topological order and symmetry breaking phases. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 Chuyi Tuo , Ming-Rui Li , Hong Yao

We study Chern numbers to characterize the ground state of strongly interacting systems on a lattice. This method allows us to perform a numerical characterization of bosonic fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on a lattice where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Mohammad Hafezi , Anders S. Sorensen , Mikhail D. Lukin , Eugene Demler

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice generalizations of the conventional fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases. They typically arise in a 2D lattice without time-reversal symmetry when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The recent discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states - fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states realized without an external magnetic field - in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers represents a significant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-15 Aamir A. Makki , Mytraya Gattu , J. K. Jain