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Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-23 C. Repellin , T. Neupert , Z. Papic , N. Regnault

Fractional quantum Hall states are the most prominent example of states with topological order, hosting excitations with fractionalized charge. Recent experiments in twisted $\text{MoTe}_2$ and graphene-based heterostructures provided…

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We propose an improved scheme to construct many-body trial wave functions for fractional Chern insulators (FCI), using one-dimensional localized Wannier basis. The procedure borrows from the original scheme on a continuum cylinder, but is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-30 Yang-Le Wu , N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We introduce a Bloch-like basis in a C-component lowest Landau level fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect, which entangles the real and internal degrees of freedom and preserves an Nx x Ny full lattice translational symmetry. We implement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-12 Yang-Le Wu , N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Recently Chern insulators with Chern number $C=1$ and $C=2$ in zero (or very small) magnetic field have been observed in two moire graphene systems: twisted bilayer graphene and ABC trilayer graphene, both aligned with a hexagonal…

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Narrow band electron systems are particularly likely to exhibit correlated many-body phases driven by interaction effects. Examples include magnetic materials, heavy fermion systems, and topological phases such as fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-19 Ching Hua Lee , Daniel P. Arovas , Ronny Thomale

A recent experiment observes a series of quantum spin Hall effects in transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e MoTe$_2$ [K. Kang, et. al, Nature 628, 522-526 (2024)]. Among them, the vanishing Hall signal at the filling factor $\nu=3$…

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Integer and fractional Chern insulators have been extensively explored in correlated flat band models. Recently, the prediction and experimental observation of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states with spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-07 Hongyu Lu , Bin-Bin Chen , Han-Qing Wu , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

The recent observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in moir\'e fractional Chern insulators provides an opportunity to investigate zero magnetic field anyons. To potentially realize non-Abelian anyons, one approach is to…

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…

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We propose a systematical approach to construct generic fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, which are generalizations of the fractional quantum Hall states to lattice models with zero net magnetic field and full lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Xiao-Liang Qi

Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states, can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next-generation topological quantum devices. To date, integer Chern…

The fractional quantum hall effect (FQHE) is a milestone of modern day physics, its disovery paved the way for the study of fractional charges which do not obey abelian physics. However, all FQHE require an external magnetic field in order…

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The Harper-Hofstadter model provides a fractal spectrum containing topological bands of any integer Chern number, $C$. We study the many-body physics that is realized by interacting particles occupying Harper-Hofstadter bands with $|C|>1$.…

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We provide a detailed study of the Abelian quasiholes of $\nu=1/2$ bosonic fractional quantum Hall states on the torus geometry and in fractional Chern insulators. We find that the density distribution of a quasihole in a fractional Chern…

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We perform a multi-band exact diagonalization (ED) study of rhombohedral pentalayer graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride with a focus on fractional Chern insulators (FCI) in systems with weak moir\'e gaps, complementing the results…

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We perform an exact-diagonalization study of quasihole excitations for the two-component Halperin $(221)$ state in the lowest Landau level and for several $\nu=1/3$ bosonic fractional Chern insulators in topological flat bands with Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-25 Błażej Jaworowski , Nicolas Regnault , Zhao Liu

We generalize the fermion Chern-Simons theory for the Fractional Hall Effect (FQHE) which we developed before, to the case of bilayer systems. We study the complete dynamic response of these systems and predict the experimentally accessible…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ana Lopez , Eduardo Fradkin

Chiral graviton modes are hallmark collective excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) liquids. However, their existence on the lattice, where continuum symmetries that protect them from decay are lost, is still an open and urgent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Min Long , Zeno Bacciconi , Hongyu Lu , Hernan B. Xavier , Zi Yang Meng , Marcello Dalmonte

Non-Abelian (NA) fractional topological states with quasi-particles obeying NA braiding statistics have attracted intensive attentions for both its fundamental nature and the prospect for topological quantum computation. To date, there are…

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