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We show that an energy gap is induced in graphene by light-matter coupling to a circularly polarized photon mode in a cavity. Using many-body perturbation theory we compute the electronic spectra which exhibit photon-dressed sidebands akin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Xiao Wang , Enrico Ronca , Michael A. Sentef

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

The observed robustly quantized Hall conductance in quantum Hall systems and Chern insulators (CI) have so far been understood in terms of the topology of isolated systems, which are not coupled to leads. It is assumed that the leads act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Satyam Sinha , Rekha Kumari , Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar , R. Shankar

Physical systems with non-trivial topological order find direct applications in metrology[1] and promise future applications in quantum computing[2,3]. The quantum Hall effect derives from transverse conductance, quantized to unprecedented…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Dina Genkina , Lauren M. Aycock , Hsin-I Lu , Alina M. Pineiro , Mingwu Lu , I. B. Spielman

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is uniquely characterized by the topological Chern number C. Controlling the Chern number is a key step toward functional topological electronics and enables access to exotic quantum phases beyond…

Transport properties are central to characterizing quantum matter, yet their extraction typically requires external forcing and time-resolved measurements. In this work, we propose a scheme to access transport coefficients directly from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-04 Felix A. Palm , Alexander Impertro , Monika Aidelsburger , Nathan Goldman

Chern-Simons (CS) invariant is a fundamental topological invariant describing the topological invariance of 3D space based on the Chern-Simons field theory. To date, direct measurement of the CS invariant in a physical system remains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-09 Chang-Rui Yi , Jinlong Yu , Huan Yuan , Xin Chen , Jia-Yu Guo , Jinyi Zhang , Shuai Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

We study the coherent non-equilibrium dynamics of interacting two-dimensional systems after a quench from a trivial to a topological Chern insulator phase. While the many-body wavefunction is constrained to remain topologically trivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-10 Michael Schüler , Jan Carl Budich , Philipp Werner

The discovery of topological states of matter has profoundly augmented our understanding of phase transitions in physical systems. Instead of local order parameters, topological phases are described by global topological invariants and are…

Two-band Chern insulators are topologically classified by the Chern number, $c$, which is given by the integral of the Berry curvature of the occupied band over the Brillouin torus. The curvature itself comes from the imaginary part of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 F. Kordon , J. Fernández , P. Roura-Bas

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the application of information geometry to quantum many body physics. This interest has been driven by three separate lines of research, which can all be understood as different facets of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 J. Lambert , E. S. Sørensen

We study quantum Hall (QH) states on a punctured Riemann sphere. We compute the Berry curvature under adiabatic motion in the moduli space in the large N limit. The Berry curvature is shown to be finite in the large N limit and controlled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 Tankut Can

Two-dimensional lattice models subjected to an external effective magnetic field can form nontrivial band topologies characterized by nonzero integer band Chern numbers. In this Letter, we investigate such a lattice model originating from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-01 Dong Wang , Zhao Liu , Junpeng Cao , Heng Fan

We study quantum processes with two or more adiabatic parameters. When the parameters are compactified, a derivative of the Hamiltonian gives a first Chern number, hence an integer. This topological formulation is applied to the AC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun Goryo , Mahito Kohmoto

Floquet engineering severs as a forceful technique for uncovering high Chern numbers of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states with feasible tunability in high-order topologically insulating plumbene, which is readily accessible for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhe Li , Fangyang Zhan , Haijun Cao , Jingjing Cao , Huisheng Zhang , Sheng Meng

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

In this letter we study the Hall conductance for a non-Hermitian Chern insulator and quantitatively describe how the Hall conductance deviates from a quantized value. We show the effects of the non-Hermitian terms on the Hall conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Chen , Hui Zhai

Topologically ordered states are characterized by topological quantities like the Hall conductance, topological entanglement entropy, and chiral central charge. Techniques based on the modular Hamiltonian have recently been developed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-28 Sandeep Sharma , Ajit C. Balram

We report the theoretical discovery of a systematic scheme to produce topological flat bands (TFBs) with arbitrary Chern numbers. We find that generically a multi-orbital high Chern number TFB model can be constructed by considering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Shuo Yang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Kai Sun , S. Das Sarma

We argue that in addition to the Hall conductance and the nondissipative component of the viscous tensor, there exists a third independent transport coefficient, which is precisely quantized. It takes constant values along quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-05 Semyon Klevtsov , Paul Wiegmann