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By combining exotic band dispersion with nontrivial band topology, an interesting type of band structure, namely the flat chern band (FCB), has recently been proposed to spawn high-temperature fractional quantum hall states. Despite the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-15 Zheng Liu , Zheng-Fei Wang , Jia-Wei Mei , Yong-Shi Wu , Feng Liu

Remarkable recent experiments on the moir\'e structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral graphene aligned with a hexagonal Boron-Nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero field fractional quantum hall effect. These "(Fractional)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Zhihuan Dong , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

The realization of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in cold atomic gases is a long-standing goal in quantum simulation. Established approaches, including rapidly rotating gases and tight-binding lattices, are often hampered by low…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-03 Ophelia Evelyn Sommer , Nigel R. Cooper

Topological insulators are a new phase of matter with the distinctive characteristics of an insulating bulk and conducting edge states. Recent theories indicate there even exist topological edge states in the fractal-dimensional lattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Junkai Li , Yeyang Sun , Qingyang Mo , Zhichao Ruan , Zhaoju Yang

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

Great efforts are currently devoted to the engineering of topological Bloch bands in ultracold atomic gases. Recent achievements in this direction, together with the possibility of tuning inter-particle interactions, suggest that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 Cécile Repellin , Nathan Goldman

Charge fractionalization is a possible emergent excitation in a low-dimensional system of interacting electrons. A known example is that of fractional charges in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) regime, which is a consequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Hiroyuki Inoue , Anna Grivnin , Nissim Ofek , Izhar Neder , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

Considerable efforts have recently been devoted to the experimental realization of a two-dimensional Chern insulator, i.e., a system displaying a quantum anomalous Hall effect. However, existing approaches such as those based on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-12 Kevin F. Garrity , David Vanderbilt

Infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) provide a powerful variational framework for two-dimensional quantum matter and have been widely used to capture bosonic topological order, including chiral spin liquids. Here we extend this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Hao Chen , Titus Neupert , Juraj Hasik

Anyon usually exists as collective excitation of two dimensional electron gas subjected to strong magnetic field, carrying fractional charges and exotic statistical character beyond fermion and boson. Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Tieyan Si

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

Employing the state-of-the-art time-dependent variational principle (TDVP) algorithm, we compute the spectra of charge-neutral excitations in the $\nu=1/2$ (bosonic) \updated{ and $1/3$ (fermionic) fractional Chern insulator (FCI)} on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Min Long , Hongyu Lu , Han-Qing Wu , Zi Yang Meng

We propose a unifying model for FQHE which on the one hand connects it to recent developments in string theory and on the other hand leads to new predictions for the principal series of experimentally observed FQH systems with filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Cumrun Vafa

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number host multiple dissipationless chiral edge channels, which are of fundamental interest and promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. However, only a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xiaolin Wan , Zhen Ning , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under strong magnetic fields, interactions can cause fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Bringing two 2D conductors to proximity, a new set of correlated states can emerge due to interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand Halperin , Philip Kim

Orbital magnetism in graphene originates from correlation-driven spontaneous valley symmetry breaking1-7. It can lead to various anomalous transport phenomena such as integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects8-11. In general,…

We present a theory of fractional Chern insulator stabilization against charge-ordered states. We argue that the phase competition is captured by an effective interaction range, which depends on both the bare interaction range and quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-19 Peleg Emanuel , Anna Keselman , Yuval Oreg

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Tixuan Tan , Feng-Ren Fan , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao

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

The sliding Luttinger liquids (LL) approach is applied to study fractional topological insulators (FTI). We show that FTI is the low energy fixed point of the theory for realistic spin-orbit and electron-electron interaction. We find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-27 Raul A. Santos , Chia-Wei Huang , Yuval Gefen , D. B. Gutman