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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

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 propose a systematical approach to construct generic fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, which are generalizations of the fractional quantum Hall states to lattice models with zero net magnetic field and full lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Xiao-Liang Qi

We prove that all the criteria proposed in the literature to identify a Chern band hosting exact fractional Chern insulating ground states, in fact, describe an equivalence with a lowest Landau level defined in curved space under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 B. Estienne , N. Regnault , V. Crépel

We present a theoretical study of mapping between Chern bands and generalized Landau levels in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ ($t$MoTe$_2$), where fractional Chern insulators down to zero magnetic fields have been observed. We construct an exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Bohao Li , Fengcheng Wu

Recently, many numerical evidences of fractional Chern insulator, i.e. the fractional quantum Hall states on lattices, are proposed when a Chern band is partially filled. Some trial wavefunctions of fractional Chern insulators can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-13 Chao-Ming Jian , Xiao-Liang Qi

We construct an effective Hamiltonian for electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime for GaAs and graphene that takes into account Landau level mixing (for both GaAs and graphene) and subband mixing (for GaAs, due to the nonzero width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Michael R. Peterson , Chetan Nayak

The Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) effect has been predicted to occur in absence of magnetic fields and at high temperature in lattice systems that have flat bands with non-zero Chern number. We demonstrate that the presence of orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Maria Daghofer , Jeroen van den Brink

An exciting new prospect in condensed matter physics is the possibility of realizing fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in simple lattice models without a large external magnetic field. A fundamental question is whether qualitatively new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-29 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Liang Qi

The quest for universal signatures of topological phases is fundamentally important since these properties are robust to variations in system-specific details. Here we present general results for the response of quantum Hall states to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Rudro R. Biswas , Dam T. Son

We show that there is an emergent lattice description for the continuous fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, with a generalised set of few-body coherent states. In particular, model Hamiltonians of the FQH effect are equivalent to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Bo Yang

We introduce a universal formulation of the generalized real space interactions with translational invariance, when projected into a single Landau level, can be equivalent to density-density interaction projected into any Chern bands (e.g.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-26 Bo Yang

Four-Fermi quantum field theories in (2+1) dimensions lie among the simplest models in high-energy physics, the understanding of which requires a non-perturbative lattice formulation addressing their strongly-coupled fixed points. These…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-19 L. Ziegler , E. Tirrito , M. Lewenstein , S. Hands , A. Bermudez

Edge excitations are the defining signature of chiral topologically ordered systems. In continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, these excitations are described by the chiral Luttinger liquid ($\chi$LL) theory. Whether this effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Xiao-Han Yang , Ji-Yao Chen , Xiao-Yu Dong

Fractional Chern insulators are new realizations of fractional quantum Hall states in lattice systems without orbital magnetic field. These states can be mapped onto conventional fractional quantum Hall states through the Wannier state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-04 Ching Hua Lee , Xiao-Liang Qi

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

We establish a variational principle for properly mapping a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state to a fractional Chern insulator (FCI). We find that the mapping has a gauge freedom which could generate a class of FCI ground state wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in ideal flat bands with Chern number $C$ are commonly understood as color-entangled states constructed from $C$ copies of the lowest Landau level. In realistic moir\'e systems, however, the band geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Moru Song , Kai Chang

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