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The scaling behavior of the quantum phase transition from an insulator to a quantum Hall plateau state has often been examined within systems realizing Landau levels. We study the topological transition in energy band models with nonzero…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-04-30 Jerimie Priest , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng

The plateau phase transition in quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators corresponds to a quantum state wherein a single magnetic domain gives way to multiple magnetic domains and then re-converges back to a single magnetic domain. The layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Deyi Zhuo , Ling-Jie Zhou , Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Jie Yan , Annie G. Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

We generalize the fractional quantum Hall hierarchy picture to apply to arbitrary, possibly non-Abelian, fractional quantum Hall states. Applying this to the nu = 5/2 Moore-Read state, we construct new explicit trial wavefunctions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Parsa Bonderson , J. K. Slingerland

We investigated the behavior of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in a two-dimensional electron system with layer thickness and an in-plane magnetic field. Our comparisons across various filling factors within the first Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Dan Ye , Chen-Xin Jiang , Zi-Xiang Hu

A flat band with Chern number $C=0$, and well isolated from the rest of Hilbert space by a gap much larger than interaction strength, is a context that has not been regarded as relevant for fractional quantum Hall physics. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zuzhang Lin , Hongyu Lu , Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

We review various features of interacting Abelian topological phases of matter in two spatial dimensions, placing particular emphasis on fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) and fractional topological insulators (FTIs). We highlight aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Thomas Iadecola , Luiz H. Santos , Christopher Mudry

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 Landau level spectra and the quantum Hall effect of ABA-stacked multilayer graphenes are studied in the effective mass approximation. The low-energy effective mass Hamiltonian may be partially diagonalized into an approximate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

The experimental discoveries of fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects under zero magnetic fields in both transition metal dichalcogenide and pentalayer graphene moir\'e superlattices have aroused significant research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhongqing Guo , Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

We study the toplogical checkerboard lattice model around the $\nu=\frac{1}{3}$ fractional quantum Hall phase using numerical exact diagonalization without Landau level projections. We add local perturbations, modified hoppings and on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-08 Topi Siro , Mikko Ervasti , Ari Harju

We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

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

Mechanism of the particle-flux separation in the Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled with nonrelativistic fermions is studied in a nonperturbative method. This problem is very important for the composite fermion approach to the fractional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Ichinose , T. Matsui

Low lying excitations of electron liquids in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime are studied by resonant inelastic light scattering methods. We present here results from charge and spin excitations of FQH states in the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. F. Hirjibehedin , Irene Dujovne , A. Pinczuk , B. S. Dennis , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Quantum geometry is a fundamental concept to characterize the local properties of quantum states. It is recently demonstrated that saturating certain quantum geometric bounds allows a topological Chern band to share many essential features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Zhao Liu , Bruno Mera , Manato Fujimoto , Tomoki Ozawa , Jie Wang

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) realized in fractional quantum Hall systems subject to a periodic potential are topological phases of matter for which space group symmetries play an important role. In particular, lattice dislocations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Christina Knapp , Eric M. Spanton , Andrea F. Young , Chetan Nayak , Michael P. Zaletel

We investigate broken rotational symmetry (BRS) states for the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at 1/3-filling of the valence Landau level (LL). Recent Monte Carlo calculations by Musaelian and Joynt [J. Phys.: Condens.\ Matter {\bf…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Orion Ciftja , C. Wexler

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, known for their robust topological order and the emergence of non-Abelian anyons, have captured significant interest due to the appealing applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Bottom-up…

Lattice generalizations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, called fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), have been extensively investigated in strongly correlated systems. Despite many efforts, previous studies have not revealed all of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-28 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

Topologically ordered phases are characterized by long-range quantum entanglement and fractional statistics rather than by symmetry breaking. First observed in a fractionally filled continuum Landau level, topological order has since been…