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We investigate the algebraic structure of flat energy bands a partial filling of which may give rise to a fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (or a fractional Chern insulator) and a fractional quantum spin Hall effect. Both effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 M. O. Goerbig

Correlation and frustration play essential roles in physics, giving rise to novel quantum phases [1-6]. A typical frustrated system is correlated bosons on moat bands, which could host topological orders with long-range quantum entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-17 Rui Wang , Tigran A. Sedrakyan , Baigeng Wang , Lingjie Du , Rui-Rui Du

Complexity in many-particle systems occurs through processes of qualitative differentiation. These are described by concepts such as emerging states with specific symmetries that are linked to order parameters. In quantum Hall phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-18 Biswajit Karmakar , Vittorio Pellegrini , Aron Pinczuk , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West

Two-component fractional quantum Hall (2C-FQH) states in electron bilayers have been known for decades, yet their experimental realization remained limited to low-order fractions. Here we report on several families of high-order 2C-FQH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 E. Bell , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , M. A. Zudov

We investigate the ground state of a balanced electron-hole system in the quantum Hall regime using mean-field theory and obtain a rich phase diagram as a function of interlayer distance d and the filling factor within a layer. We identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

The discovery of Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs) in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ has sparked significant interest in fractional topological matter without external magnetic fields. Unlike the flat dispersion of Landau levels, moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Tianhong Lu , Luiz H. Santos

Within the first principle calculations, we propose a boron and nitrogen cluster incorporated graphene system for efficient valley polarization. The broken spatial inversion symmetry results in high Berry curvature at K and K' valleys of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-18 Shneha Biswas , Souren Adhikary , Sudipta Dutta

We study fractional quantum Hall states in double layer systems that can be interpreted as exciton condensates of composite fermions. An electron in one layer is dressed by two fluxes from the same layer and two fluxes from the other layer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-17 Xiang-Jian Hou , Lei Wang , Ying-Hai Wu

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

Stationary solutions of the Chern-Simons effective field theory for the fractional quantum Hall systems with edges are presented for Hall bar, disk and annulus. In the infinitely long Hall bar geometry (non compact case), the charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Shiraishi , Y. Avishai , M. Kohmoto

We present a class of states with both topological and conventional Landau order that arise out of strongly interacting spinless fermions in fractionally filled and topologically non-trivial bands with Chern number $C=\pm 1$. These quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-11 Stefanos Kourtis , Maria Daghofer

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

We study the transition of $\nu=1/3$ and $2/5$ fractional quantum Hall states of the honeycomb Hofstadter model as we tune to a two-orbital moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian, motivated by the flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Bartholomew Andrews , Alexey Soluyanov

Fully taking into account of the honeycomb lattice structure, fractional quantum Hall states of graphene are considered by a pseudopotential projected into the n = 0 Landau band. By using a chirality as an internal degree of freedom, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-16 Koji Kudo , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

We uncover topological features of neutral particle-hole pair excitations of correlated quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators whose approximately flat conduction and valence bands have equal and opposite non-zero Chern number. Using an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-02 Yves H. Kwan , Yichen Hu , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoTe$_2$, provide a versatile platform for exploring correlated topological phases. This work investigates the interplay of perpendicular magnetic and electric fields in tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Tianhong Lu , Yi-Ming Wu , Luiz H. Santos

The Laughlin state embodies a universal class of fractional quantum Hall effects arising in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to strong perpendicular magnetic fields. Conventionally described by a single-component wavefunction, the…

We investigate few- and many-body states in half-filled maximally symmetric topological insulator flat bands realized by two degenerate Landau levels which experience opposite magnetic fields. This serves as a toy model of flat bands in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Nikolaos Stefanidis , Inti Sodemann