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Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) -- the lattice analog of fractional quantum Hall states -- form as fractionalized quasiparticles emerge in a partially-filled Chern band. This fractionalization is driven by the interplay of electronic…

The fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) observed in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattices have a unique origin contrary to theoretical expectations: their non-interacting band structure is gapless, unlike…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Yves H. Kwan , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

When one of the graphene layers of Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene is nearly aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate (a configuration dubbed TBG/hBN), the active electronic bands are nearly flat, and have a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Cécile Repellin , T. Senthil

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

A set of recent results indicates that fractionally filled bands of Chern insulators in two dimensions support fractional quantum Hall states analogous to those found in fractionally filled Landau levels. We provide an understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-26 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

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 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

The understanding of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has been deeply guided by band topology and quantum geometry. Here, we introduce a real-space theoretical framework in which FCIs are understood in terms of composite bosons, local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Guangyu Yu , Zheng Zhu

We develop a mean-field theory of the stability of fractional Chern insulators based on the dipole picture of composite fermions (CFs). We construct CFs by binding vortices to Bloch electrons and derive a CF single-particle Hamiltonian that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Xiaodong Hu , Ying Ran , Di Xiao

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

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

Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene flakes with a substrate induced moir\'e potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional Quantum Hall states in the absence of an applied magnetic field. Surprisingly,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-15 Junkai Dong , Taige Wang , Tianle Wang , Tomohiro Soejima , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath , Daniel E. Parker

We show that all the bands of the Hofstadter model on the torus have an exactly flat dispersion and Berry curvature when a special system size is chosen. This result holds for any hopping and Chern number. Our analysis therefore provides a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-24 Thomas Scaffidi , Steven H. Simon

Integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects have been widely seen in moir\'e systems. Recently there is even observation of a time reversal invariant fractional quantum spin hall (FQSH) state at filling $n=3$ in twisted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-27 Ya-Hui Zhang

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) typically emerge in topological flat bands and are regarded as lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states. Conventionally, the flat-band wavefunctions that support FCIs are expected to mimic the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Moru Song , Kai Chang

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have attracted intensive attention for the realization of fractional quantum Hall states in the absence of an external magnetic field. Most of FCIs have been proposed on two-dimensional (2D) Euclidean…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-11 Ai-Lei He , Lu Qi , Yongjun Liu , Yi-Fei Wang

Lattice models forming bands with higher Chern number offer an intriguing possibility for new phases of matter with no analogue in continuum Landau levels. Here, we establish the existence of a number of new bulk insulating states at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-06 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Heng Fan , Andreas M. Laeuchli

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) were proposed theoretically about a decade ago. These exotic states of matter are fractional quantum Hall states realized when a nearly flat Chern band is partially filled, even in the absence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ying Ran

The quantum metric of single-particle wave functions in topological flatbands plays a crucial role in determining the stability of fractional Chern insulating (FCI) states. Here, we unravel that the quantum metric causes the many-body Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-13 Ang-Kun Wu , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin