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Recent observations of the fractional anomalous quantum Hall effect in moir\'e materials have reignited the interest in fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). The chiral limit in which analytic Landau level-like single-particle states form an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-06 Hui Liu , Kang Yang , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect. While the latter conventionally arises in semiconductor heterostructures at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

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

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), having properties similar to those of the fractional quantum Hall effect, have been established numerically in various toy models. To fully explore their fundamental physics and to develop practical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-26 Wei Li , Zheng Liu , Yong-Shi Wu , Yan Chen

In the field of fractional Chern insulators, a great deal of effort has been devoted to characterizing Chern bands that exhibit properties similar to the Landau levels. Among them, the concept of the vortex function, which generalizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Nobuyuki Okuma

Enhancing the many-body gap of a fractional state is crucial for realizing robust fractional excitations. For fractional Chern insulators, existing studies suggest that making flat Chern bands closely resemble the lowest Landau level (LLL)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Yitong Zhang , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Daniel E. Parker , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

Most fractional quantum Hall states have been traditionally identified within a single energy band, such as the lowest Landau level or topological flat band. As more particles are introduced, they inevitably populate higher energy bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Licheng Wang , Dong-Hao Guan , Ai-Lei He , Shun-Li Yu , Yuan Zhou

We propose a generalized composite fermion (CF) theory for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) by adapting the quantum mechanics approach of CFs. The theoretical framework naturally produces an effective CF Hamiltonian and a wavefunction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-12 Hao Jin , Junren Shi

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

Fractional Chern insulators are theoretically predicted states of electronic matter with emergent topological order. They exhibit the same universal properties as the fractional quantum Hall effect, but dispose of the need to apply a strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-08 Adolfo G. Grushin , Álvaro Gómez-León , Titus Neupert

Recently, generalizations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states known as fractional quantum anomalous Hall or, equivalently, fractional Chern insulators states have been realized in lattice models. Ideal wavefunctions such as the Laughlin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale , Xiao-Liang Qi

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

The realization of interacting topological states of matter such as fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in cold atom systems has recently come within experimental reach due to the engineering of optical lattices with synthetic gauge fields…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-03 Johannes Motruk , Ilyoun Na

The realization of fractional Chern insulators opens up the possibility of exploring fractionally charged excitations and anyonic statistics in the absence of a magnetic field. One of the central questions is whether lattice-based systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zexu Li , Wenxuan Wang , Fajie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Qiu Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jie Wang , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

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

In this Letter, we study topological flat bands with distinct features that deviate from conventional Landau level behavior. We show that even in the ideal quantum geometry limit, moire flat band systems can exhibit physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Ang-Kun Wu , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

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

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

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