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We investigate the band structure of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG), or twisted graphene on bilayer graphene (tGBG), as a function of twist angles and perpendicular electric fields in search of optimum conditions for achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

The unexpected discovery of superconductivity and strong electron correlation in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a system containing only sp electrons, is considered as one of the most intriguing developments in two-dimensional materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Wei-Chen Wang , Feng-Wu Chen , Kuan-Sen Lin , Justin T. Hou , Ho-Chun Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

Recent experiments in moir\'e materials have observed fractional Chern insulators (FCI) at zero magnetic field, providing an opportunity to study the transition from FCI to the more conventional phases such as Fermi liquid (FL) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-31 Ya-Hui Zhang

Experimental realizations of Abelian fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have demonstrated the potentials of moir\'e systems in synthesizing exotic quantum phases. Remarkably, twisted multilayer graphene system may also host non-Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 Sen Niu , Yang Peng , D. N. Sheng

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

We show that collective excitations and optical responses of moir\'e fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) drastically differ from those of standard fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in a Landau level. By constructing a variational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Nisarga Paul , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Aidan Reddy , Liang Fu

The appearance of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e systems can be rationalized by the presence of a fictitious magnetic field associated with the spatial texture of layer-resolved electronic wavefunctions. Here, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Kryštof Kolář , Kang Yang , Felix von Oppen , Christophe Mora

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for investigating flat-band-driven correlated phenomena, yet most aspects remain not understood. In this work, we systematically study the moire-dependent band topology in…

We formulate a Chern-Simons composite fermion theory for Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs), whereby bare fermions are mapped into composite fermions coupled to a lattice Chern-Simons gauge theory. We apply this construction to a Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-10 Ramanjit Sohal , Luiz H. Santos , Eduardo Fradkin

The search for fractional quantized Hall phases in the absence of a magnetic field has primarily targeted flat-band systems that mimic the features of a Landau level. In an alternative approach, the fractional excitonic insulator (FEI) has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-31 Steven Gassner , Ady Stern , C. L. Kane

Many graphene moir\'e superlattices host narrow bands with non-zero valley Chern numbers. We provide analytical and numerical evidence for a robust spin and/or valley polarized insulator at total integer band filling in nearly flat bands of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Cécile Repellin , Zhihuan Dong , Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

Staggered magnetic fluxes (SMF) play a crucial role in achieving Chern insulators (CIs), by which a series of CI models have been established on various lattices. In addition, SMF induced higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-07 Li-Xiang Chen , Dong-Hao Guan , Lu Qi , Xiuyun Zhang , Ying Han , Ai-Lei He

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

The properties of fractional Chern insulator (FCI) phases and the phase transitions between FCI and Mott insulators (MI) in bosonic systems are well studied. The continuous transitions between FCI and superfluid (SF), however, despite the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-07 Hongyu Lu , Han-Qing Wu , Bin-Bin Chen , Zi Yang Meng

We propose an improved scheme to construct many-body trial wave functions for fractional Chern insulators (FCI), using one-dimensional localized Wannier basis. The procedure borrows from the original scheme on a continuum cylinder, but is…

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

We report the observation of a new series of Abelian and non-Abelian topological states in fractional Chern insulators (FCI). The states appear at bosonic filling nu= k/(C+1) (k, C integers) in several lattice models, in fractionally filled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 A. Sterdyniak , C. Repellin , B. Andrei Bernevig , N. Regnault

We explain the appearance of magic angles and fractional Chern insulators in twisted K-valley homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides by mapping their continuum model to a Landau level problem. Our approach relies on an adiabatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Nemin Wei , Jingtian Shi , Allan H. MacDonald

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

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