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The sliding Luttinger liquids (LL) approach is applied to study fractional topological insulators (FTI). We show that FTI is the low energy fixed point of the theory for realistic spin-orbit and electron-electron interaction. We find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-27 Raul A. Santos , Chia-Wei Huang , Yuval Gefen , D. B. Gutman

We study four different models of Chern insulators in the presence of strong electronic repulsion at partial fillings. We observe that all cases exhibit a Laughlin-like phase at filling fraction 1/3. We provide evidence of such a strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-30 Yang-Le Wu , B. Andrei Bernevig , N. Regnault

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

Higher-order topological insulators, as a novel family of topological phases, are a hot frontier in condensed matter physics due to their adherence to unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence. A three-dimensional second-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Han-Rong Xia , Jia-Zheng Li , Si-Yu Yuan , Meng Xiao

We discuss detection strategies for fractional topological insulators (FTIs) realizing time-reversal invariant analogues of fractional quantum Hall systems in the Laughlin universality class. Focusing on transport measurements, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 B. Béri , N. R. Cooper

Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated by recent bulk observations of fractional Chern insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Yan-Qi Wang , Johannes Motruk , Andrey Grankin , Mohammad Hafezi

Topological magnetic insulators host chiral gapless edge modes. In the presence of strong interaction effects, the spin of these modes may fractionalize. Studying a 2D array of coupled insulating spin-1/2 chains, we show how spatially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Even Thingstad , Pierre Fromholz , Flavio Ronetti , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We investigate topological phase transitions in Chern insulators within three-band models, focusing on the empty band and lowest band populated by spinless fermions. We consider Lieb and kagome lattices and notice phase transitions driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-19 P. Potasz , B. Jaworowski , M. Kupczyński , M. Brzezińska , P. Kaczmarkiewicz , A. Wójs

We report on a topological insulating state in a heavy-fermion system away from half-filling, which is hidden within a ferromagnetic metallic phase. In this phase, the cooperation of the RKKY interaction and the Kondo effect, together with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-16 Tsuneya Yoshida , Robert Peters , Satoshi Fujimoto , Norio Kawakami

We consider the topological protection of entanglement and particle fluctuations for a general one-dimensional chiral topological insulator with winding number $\mathcal{I}$. We prove, in particular, that when the periodic system is divided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-15 K. Monkman , J. Sirker

We discuss the low-energy limit of three-orbital Kondo-lattice and Hubbard models describing $t_{2g}$ orbitals on a triangular lattice near half-filling. We analyze how very flat bands with non-trivial topological character, a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Stefanos Kourtis , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Maria Daghofer

The chiral hinge modes are the key feature of a second order topological insulator in three dimensions. Here we propose a quadrupole index in combination of a slab Chern number in the bulk to characterize the flowing pattern of chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect provides a paradigmatic example of a topological phase of matter. FQH edges are theoretically described via models belonging to the class of chiral Luttinger liquid (CLL) theories [1 (Wen, 2007)].…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Noam Schiller , Tomer Alkalay , Changki Hong , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , Yuval Oreg , Kyrylo Snizhko

Three-dimensional higher-order topological insulators can have topologically protected chiral modes propagating on their hinges. Hinges with two co-propagating chiral modes can serve as a "beam splitter" between hinges with only a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Adam Yanis Chaou , Piet W. Brouwer , Nicholas Sedlmayr

Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moir\'e Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-22 Xiaoyang Shen , Chonghao Wang , Ruiping Guo , Zhiming Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

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

According to the general classification of topological insulators, there exist one-dimensional chirally (sublattice) symmetric systems that can support any number of topological phases. We introduce a zigzag fermion chain with spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Teemu Ojanen

We study second-order topological insulators and semimetals characterized by chiral symmetry. We investigate topological phase transitions of a model for construction of the two-dimensional second-order topological insulators protected only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryo Okugawa , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

Topological insulators can be generally defined by a topological field theory with an axion angle theta of 0 or pi. In this work, we introduce the concept of fractional topological insulator defined by a fractional axion angle and show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-14 Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , Andreas Karch , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We construct microscopical models of one-dimensional non-interacting topological insulators in all of the chiral universality classes. Specifically, we start with a deformation of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model that breaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Polina Matveeva , Tyler Hewitt , Donghao Liu , Kethan Reddy , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr