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We use numerical simulations to predict peculiar magnetotransport fingerprints in polycrystalline graphene, driven by the presence of grain boundaries of varying size and orientation. The formation of Landau levels is shown to be restricted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Aron W. Cummings , Alessandro Cresti , Stephan Roche

It has been recently realized that strong interactions in topological Bloch bands give rise to the appearance of novel states of matter. Here we study connections between these systems -- fractional Chern insulators and the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-28 Zhao Liu , D. L. Kovrizhin , Emil J. Bergholtz

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are strongly interacting electron systems with topological order. These systems are characterized by novel ground states, fractionally charged and neutral excitations. The neutral excitations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Ammar Kirmani , Benedikt Fauseweh , Jian-Xin Zhu

One of the most prominent characteristics of two-dimensional Quantum Hall systems are chiral edge modes. Their existence is a consequence of the bulk-boundary correspondence and their stability guarantees the quantization of the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Sonja Fischer , Michal van Hooft , Twan van der Meijden , Cristiane Morais Smith , Lars Fritz , Mikael Fremling

Single-component fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) at even-denominator filling factors may host non-Abelian quasiparticles that are considered to be building blocks of topological quantum computers. Such states, however, are rarely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Chengyu Wang , A. Gupta , S. K. Singh , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

We describe a mechanism by which fermions in topologically trivial bands can form correlated states exhibiting a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect upon introduction of strong repulsive interactions. These states are solid-liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 Stefanos Kourtis

The recent progress in engineering topological band structures in optical-lattice systems makes it promising to study fractional Chern insulator states in these systems. Here we consider a realistic finite system of a few repulsively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-23 Botao Wang , Xiao-Yu Dong , André Eckardt

In contrast to the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect, where electron density fixes the applied magnetic field, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) can realize FQH states in comparatively weak or even zero magnetic fields. Previous…

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), observed in two-dimensional (2D) charged particles at high magnetic fields, is one of the most fascinating, macroscopic manifestations of a many-body state stabilized by the strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , D. Kamburov , A. L. Graninger , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Lingjie Du , Ursula Wurstbauer , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Saeed Fallahi , Geoff C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , Aron Pinczuk

We study the static structure factor of the fractional Chern insulator Laughlin-like state and provide analytical forms for this quantity in the long-distance limit. In the course of this we identify averaged over Brillouin zone Fubini…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-28 E. Dobardzic , M. V. Milovanovic , N. Regnault

We investigate the integer quantum Hall system in a two dimensional lattice model with spatially correlated disorder by using the efficient method to calculate the Chern number proposed by Fukui \textit{et al}. Distribution of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui Song , Isao Maruyama , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

A simple one-dimensional model is proposed, in which N spinless repulsively interacting fermions occupy M>N degenerate states. It is argued that the energy spectrum and the wavefunctions of this system strongly resemble the spectrum and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-23 M. I. Dyakonov

The Pfaffian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states are incompressible non-Abelian topological fluids present in a half-filled electron Landau level, where there is a balanced population of electrons and holes. They give rise to half-integral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Alexander Sirota , Sharmistha Sahoo , Gil Young Cho , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

The stability of $\nu=1/3$ Fractional Chern Insulator (FCI) phase is analysed on the example of checkerboard lattice undergoing a transition into Lieb lattice. The transition is performed by the addition of a second sublattice, whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-08 Błażej Jaworowski , Paweł Potasz , Andrei Manolescu

We investigate the problem of intertwined orders in fractional Chern insulators by considering lattice fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states arising from pairing of composite fermions in the square-lattice Hofstadter model. At certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Ramanjit Sohal , Eduardo Fradkin

The rise of moir\'{e} materials has led to experimental realizations of integer and fractional Chern insulators in small or vanishing magnetic fields. At the same time, a set of minimal conditions sufficient to guarantee a Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Manato Fujimoto , Daniel E. Parker , Junkai Dong , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath , Patrick Ledwith

The recent discovery of the 3D quantum Hall effect in $\mathrm{HfTe_5}$ has also revealed puzzling signatures of possible 3D fractionalization. Beyond the first plateau associated with the lowest Landau band, Hall conductivity exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jun-Hong Li , Yi-Yuan Chen , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects in graphene are studied because of their relativistic characteristics and the valley degree of freedom. Recently FQH effects have been observed at various filling factors with graphene on a hexagonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 Kouki Yonaga , Naokazu Shibata

We have investigated the fractional quantum Hall states for the Dirac electrons in a graphene layer in different Landau levels. The relativistic nature of the energy dispersion relation of the electrons in the graphene significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty