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A recent experiment observes a series of quantum spin Hall effects in transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e MoTe$_2$ [K. Kang, et. al, Nature 628, 522-526 (2024)]. Among them, the vanishing Hall signal at the filling factor $\nu=3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Feng Chen , Wei-Wei Luo , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng

We theoretically investigate the chiral topological excitons emerging in the monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, where a bulk energy gap of valley excitons is opened up by a position dependent external magnetic field. We find two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 Z. R. Gong , W. Z. Luo , Z. F. Jiang , H. C. Fu

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…

Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states, can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next-generation topological quantum devices. To date, integer Chern…

Recent theoretical works have demonstrated various robust Abelian and non-Abelian fractional topological phases in lattice models with topological flat bands carrying Chern number C=1. Here we study hard-core bosons and interacting fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-07 Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao , Chang-De Gong , D. N. Sheng

Half-filled Landau levels admit the theoretically powerful fermion-vortex duality but longstanding puzzles remain in their experimental realization as $\nu_T=1$ quantum Hall bilayers, further complicated by Zheng et al's recent numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-08 Ya-Hui Zhang , Itamar Kimchi

In this Letter, we study topological flat bands with distinct features that deviate from conventional Landau level behavior. We show that even in the ideal quantum geometry limit, moire flat band systems can exhibit physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Ang-Kun Wu , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

We predict the emergence a state of matter with intertwined ferromagnetism, charge order and topology in fractionally filled moir\'e superlattice bands. Remarkably, these quantum anomalous Hall crystals exhibit a quantized integer Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 D. N. Sheng , Aidan P. Reddy , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Emil J. Bergholtz , Liang Fu

We report on integer and fractional quantum Hall states in a stack of two twisted Bernal bilayer graphene sheets. By exploiting the momentum mismatch in reciprocal space, we suppress single particle tunneling between both bilayers. Since…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Soyun Kim , Dohun Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jurgen. H. Smet , Youngwook Kim

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

Twisted double bilayer graphene is a compensated semi-metal near the charge neutrality point with the presence of small electron and hole pockets in its band structure. We show that strong Coulomb attraction between the electrons and holes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Unmesh Ghorai , Ayan Ghosh , Anindya Das , Rajdeep Sensarma

We study the collective modes of the quantum Hall states in undoped bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Both for the well-known ferromagnetic state that is relevant for small electric field $E_\perp$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-04 Csaba Toke , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

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 present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect. While the latter conventionally arises in semiconductor heterostructures at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

Helical trilayer graphene realizes a versatile moir\'e system for exploring correlated topological states emerging from high Chern bands. Motivated by recent experimental observations of anomalous Hall effects at fractional fillings of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Sen Niu , Jason Alicea , D. N. Sheng , Yang Peng

Due to the presence of flat Chern bands, moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a platform to realize strongly correlated topological phases of fermions such as fractional Chern insulators. TMDs are also known to host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Paul Froese , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

Monolayer graphene in a strong magnetic field exhibits quantum Hall states at filling fractions $\nu = 0$ and $\nu = \pm 1$ that are not explained within a picture of noninteracting electrons. We propose that these states arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Bitan Roy , Malcolm P. Kennett , S. Das Sarma

Moir\'e fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are a novel class of quantum matter that realizes fractional quantum Hall (FQH) physics in zero magnetic field and provides a platform for exploring unconventional collective excitations. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Xiaoyang Shen , Zijian Zhou , Ruiping Guo , Renqi Wang , Wenhui Duan , Chong Wang , Yong Xu

Magnetic fields quench the kinetic energy of two dimensional electrons, confining them to highly degenerate Landau levels. In the absence of disorder, the ground state at partial Landau level filling is determined only by Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. A. Zibrov , E. M. Spanton , H. Zhou , C. Kometter , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , A. F. Young

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…