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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…

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We study the collective excitations of fractional quantum Hall states in graphene. We focus on states which allow for chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) orders, specifically antiferromagnetism and charge density wave order. We investigate…

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A two-dimensional electron system exposed to a strong magnetic field produces a plethora of strongly interacting fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, the complex topological orders of which are revealed through exotic emergent particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ke Huang , Ajit C. Balram , Hailong Fu , Chengqi Guo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jainendra K. Jain , Jun Zhu

We investigate spin and valley symmetry-broken fractional quantum Hall phases within a formalism that naturally extends the paradigm of quantum Hall ferromagnetism from integer to fractional quantum Hall states, allowing us to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Suraj S. Hegde , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

We construct a continuum model for the Moir\'e superlattice of twisted bilayer MnBi$_2$Te$_4$, and study the band structure of the bilayer in both ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases. We find the system exhibits highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Biao Lian , Zhaochen Liu , Yuanbo Zhang , Jing Wang

A two-dimensional electron system placed in a magnetic field develops Landau levels, where strong Coulomb interactions lead to the appearance of many-body correlated ground states. Quantum numbers similar to the electron spin enable the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Ke Huang , Hailong Fu , Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey , Nasim Alem , Xi Lin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jun Zhu

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 have investigated the fractional quantum Hall states for the Dirac electrons in a graphene layer in different Landau levels. The relativistic nature of the energy dispersion relation of the electrons in the graphene significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The low energy neutral excitations of incompressible fractional quantum Hall states are called collective modes or magnetic excitons. This work develops techniques for computing their dispersion at general filling fractions for reasonably…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. K. Kamilla , X. G. Wu , J. K. Jain

Interaction induced topological states remain one of the fascinating phases in condensed matter physics. The exciton condensate has recently sparked renewed interest due to the discovery of new candidate materials and its driving force to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Zheng-Rong Liu , Lun-Hui Hu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the phase diagram of interacting electrons in a dispersionless Chern band as a function of their filling. We find hierarchy multiplets of incompressible states at fillings \nu=1/3, 2/5, 3/7, 4/9, 5/9, 4/7, 3/5 as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-10 A. M. Läuchli , Z. Liu , E. J. Bergholtz , R. Moessner

Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon material with a honeycomb lattice and Dirac-type low-energy spectrum. In a strong magnetic field, where Coulomb interactions dominate against disorder broadening, quantum Hall ferromagnetic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Naokazu Shibata , Kentaro Nomura

Intra-Landau level excitations in the fractional quantum Hall regime are not accessible via optical absorption measurements. We point out that optical probes are enabled by the periodic potentials produced by a moir\'e pattern. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald

We show that a suitable combination of geometric frustration, ferromagnetism and spin-orbit interactions can give rise to nearly flat bands with a large bandgap and non-zero Chern number. Partial filling of the flat band can give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Evelyn Tang , Jia-Wei Mei , Xiao-Gang Wen

We present a scheme to realize the chiral topological excitonic insulator in semiconductor heterostructures which can be experimentally fabricated with a coupled quantum well adjacent to twoferromagnetic insulating films. The different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang , Jian Li , Zhigang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yupeng Wang

Band-inverted electron-hole bilayers support quantum spin Hall insulator and exciton condensate phases. We investigate such a bilayer in an external magnetic field. We show that the interlayer correlations lead to formation of a helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 D. I. Pikulin , P. G. Silvestrov , T. Hyart

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice analogues of fractional quantum Hall states that may provide a new avenue toward manipulating non-abelian excitations. Early theoretical studies have predicted their existence in systems with…

We analyze electronic excitations (excitations generated by adding or removing one electron) in the bulk of fractional quantum Hall states in Jain sequence states, using composite fermion Chern-Simons field theory. Starting from meanfield…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Xinlei Yue , Ady Stern

We study numerically the the charge neutral excitations (magnetorotons) in fractional quantum Hall systems, concentrating on the two Jain states near quarter filling, $\nu=2/7$ and $\nu=2/9$, and the $\nu=1/4$ Fermi-liquid state itself. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-16 Dung Xuan Nguyen , F. D. M. Haldane , E. H. Rezayi , Dam Thanh Son , Kun Yang