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In the search of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, the conventional wisdom is to start from a flat Chern band isolated from the rest of the Hilbert space by band gaps, so that many-body interaction can be projected to a…

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The recent realization of Hofstadter spectra and fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has introduced a new ingredient, a periodic lattice potential, to the study of quantum Hall phases. While the fractionalized states in moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Bishoy M. Kousa , Nicolás Morales-Durán , Tobias M. R. Wolf , Eslam Khalaf , Allan H. MacDonald

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states or fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states have been studied on two-dimensional (2D) flat lattices with different boundary conditions. Here, we propose the geometry-dependent FCI/FQAH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

We address the question of whether fractionally filled bands with a nontrivial Chern index in zero external field could also exhibit a Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). Numerical works suggest this is possible. Analytic treatments are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

Fractional Chern insulators are lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states that realize fractionalized quasiparticles without an external magnetic field. A key strategy to understand and design these phases is to map Chern bands onto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohao Li , Yunze Ouyang , Fengcheng Wu

We study two models for spinless fermions featuring topologically non-trivial bands characterized by Chern numbers $C=\pm1$ at fractional filling. Using exact diagonalization, we show that, even for infinitely strong nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefanos Kourtis , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

We study fermions and hardcore bosons with long range dipolar interactions at fractional fillings in a topological checkerboard lattice with short-range hoppings up to next-next-nearest neighbors \cite{Neupert2011}. We consider the case…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-08 Tian-Sheng Zeng , Lan Yin

We devise local lattice models whose ground states are model fractional Chern insulators---Abelian and non-Abelian topologically ordered states characterized by exact ground state degeneracies at any finite size and infinite entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-31 Jörg Behrmann , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The integer quantum Hall state occurs when the Landau levels are fully occupied by the fermions, while the fractional quantum Hall state usually emerges when the Landau level is partially filled by the strongly correlated fermions or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-22 Wei-Wei Luo , Ai-Lei He , Yi-Fei Wang , Yuan Zhou , Chang-De Gong

A set of recent results indicates that fractionally filled bands of Chern insulators in two dimensions support fractional quantum Hall states analogous to those found in fractionally filled Landau levels. We provide an understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-26 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

Considering lattice Hamiltonians designed using conformal field theory to have fractional quantum Hall states as ground states, we study the dynamics of one or two particles on such lattices. Examining the eigenspectrum and dynamics of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-18 Dillip K. Nandy , Masudul Haque , Anne E. B. Nielsen

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect illustrates the range of novel phenomena which can arise in a topologically ordered state in the presence of strong interactions. The possibility of realizing FQH-like phases in models with strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 T. S. Jackson , G. Möller , R. Roy

The pursuit of a lattice analogue for Landau levels has been a central theme in condensed matter physics. Although the correspondence between Chern bands and the lowest Landau level has been widely studied, a lattice realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Huan Wang , Rui Shi , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

Fractional Chern insulators arise in topologically nontrivial flat bands, characterized by an integer Chern number C that corresponds to the number of dissipationless edge states in the non-interacting regime. Higher Chern numbers can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Ying-Xing Ding , Wen-Tong Li , Li-Min Zhang , Yu-Biao Wu , Duanlu Zhou , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

The Hofstadter model is a popular choice for theorists investigating the fractional quantum Hall effect on lattices, due to its simplicity, infinite selection of topological flat bands, and increasing applicability to real materials. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-09 Bartholomew Andrews , Titus Neupert , Gunnar Möller

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a macroscopic manifestation of strong electron-electron interactions. Even denominator FQH states (FQHSs) at half-filling are particularly interesting as they are predicted to host non-Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Tanima Chanda , Simrandeep Kaur , Harsimran Singh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Manish Jain , Udit Khanna , Ajit C. Balram , Aveek Bid

Landau levels are the eigenstates of a charged particle in two dimensions under a magnetic field, and are at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, which are two prototypical phenomena showing topological features.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Bruno Mera , Tomoki Ozawa

We present a class of states with both topological and conventional Landau order that arise out of strongly interacting spinless fermions in fractionally filled and topologically non-trivial bands with Chern number $C=\pm 1$. These quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-11 Stefanos Kourtis , Maria Daghofer

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

Fully taking into account of the honeycomb lattice structure, fractional quantum Hall states of graphene are considered by a pseudopotential projected into the n = 0 Landau band. By using a chirality as an internal degree of freedom, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-16 Koji Kudo , Yasuhiro Hatsugai