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Recently, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), also called fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, have been theoretically established in lattice systems with topological flat bands. These systems exhibit similar fractionalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

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

Topological quantum states have been proposed and investigated on two-dimensional flat surfaces or lattices with different geometries like the plane, cylinder and torus. Here, we study quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) or Chern insulator (CI)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), having properties similar to those of the fractional quantum Hall effect, have been established numerically in various toy models. To fully explore their fundamental physics and to develop practical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-26 Wei Li , Zheng Liu , Yong-Shi Wu , Yan Chen

We establish a variational principle for properly mapping a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state to a fractional Chern insulator (FCI). We find that the mapping has a gauge freedom which could generate a class of FCI ground state wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have attracted intensive attention for the realization of fractional quantum Hall states in the absence of an external magnetic field. Most of FCIs have been proposed on two-dimensional (2D) Euclidean…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-11 Ai-Lei He , Lu Qi , Yongjun Liu , Yi-Fei Wang

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 quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a prime example of topological quantum many-body phenomena, arising from the interplay between strong electron correlation, topological order, and time reversal symmetry breaking. Recently, a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Zhurun Ji , Heonjoon Park , Mark E. Barber , Chaowei Hu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jiun-Haw Chu , Xiaodong Xu , Zhi-xun Shen

Fractional quantum Hall states are the most prominent example of states with topological order, hosting excitations with fractionalized charge. Recent experiments in twisted $\text{MoTe}_2$ and graphene-based heterostructures provided…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Fabian Pichler , Wilhelm Kadow , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap

We study two models for spinless fermions featuring topologically non-trivial bands characterized by Chern numbers $C=\pm1$ at fractional filling. Using exact diagonalization, we show that, even for infinitely strong nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefanos Kourtis , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) with crystalline symmetry possess topological invariants that fundamentally have no analog in continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we demonstrate through numerical calculations on model wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, a lattice analogue of fractional quantum Hall effect, offers a unique pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation and deep insights into the interplay of topology and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , 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

In the presence of strong electronic interactions, a partially filled Chern band may stabilize a fractional Chern insulator (FCI) state, the zero-field analog of the fractional quantum Hall phase. While FCIs have long been hypothesized,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-15 Gal Shavit , Yuval Oreg

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

In the search of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, the conventional wisdom is to start from a flat Chern band isolated from the rest of the Hilbert space by band gaps, so that many-body interaction can be projected to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Tixuan Tan , Feng-Ren Fan , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao

We propose a systematical approach to construct generic fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, which are generalizations of the fractional quantum Hall states to lattice models with zero net magnetic field and full lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Xiao-Liang Qi

A flat band with Chern number $C=0$, and well isolated from the rest of Hilbert space by a gap much larger than interaction strength, is a context that has not been regarded as relevant for fractional quantum Hall physics. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zuzhang Lin , Hongyu Lu , Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

We propose fractional anomalous Hall crystals (FAHCs) as possible ground states of strongly interacting electrons in parent bands with Berry curvature. FAHCs are exotic states of matter that spontaneously break continuous translation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Tixuan Tan , Julian May-Mann , Trithep Devakul

The experimental discoveries of fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects under zero magnetic fields in both transition metal dichalcogenide and pentalayer graphene moir\'e superlattices have aroused significant research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhongqing Guo , Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu
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