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We demonstrate that a Chern insulator could be realized on a real two-dimensional lattice of an organic Dirac semimetal {\alpha}-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 by introducing potential and magnetic modulations in a unit cell. It is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Toshihito Osada

Recent discoveries of zero-field fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials have attracted intensive research interests. However, most current theoretical and experimental attempts focus on systems with low Chern number bands, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-07 Chonghao Wang , Xiaoyang Shen , Ruiping Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The Chern insulator displays a quantized Hall effect without Landau levels. In a landmark paper in 1988, Haldane showed that a Chern insulator could be realized through complex next-nearest-neighbor hopping in a honeycomb lattice. Despite…

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice analogues of fractional quantum Hall states that may provide a new avenue toward manipulating non-abelian excitations. Early theoretical studies have predicted their existence in systems with…

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

The experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has preceded theoretical prediction. Supported by large-scale first principles relaxation…

Moir\'e systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations. Here, we will discuss a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained graphene that reproduces several key aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Qiang Gao , Junkai Dong , Patrick Ledwith , Daniel Parker , Eslam Khalaf

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-07 Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

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

Moir{\'e} superlattice realized in two-dimensional heterostructures offers an exciting platform to access strongly-correlated electronic states. In this work, we study transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) Moir{\'e} superlattices with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Heqiu Li , Umesh Kumar , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

The rapid development of moir\'e quantum matter has recently led to the remarkable discovery of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and sparked predictions of other novel correlation-driven topological states. Here, we investigate…

Graphene-based moire superlattices exhibit novel quantum phenomena driven by pronounced interactions, leading to topological corrected states like orbital Chern insulators exhibiting quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). Typically,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zaizhe Zhang , Xi Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

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

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

The isospin flavors in condensed matters can be continuously broken, forming various symmetry-broken quantum states. In moir\'e crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be effectively tuned by the twist angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Wenxuan Wang , Yijie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Zihao Huo , Gengdong Zhou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

The interplay between strong electron-electron interaction and symmetry breaking can have profound influence on the topological properties of materials. In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the flat band with a single SU(4)…

The appearance of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e systems can be rationalized by the presence of a fictitious magnetic field associated with the spatial texture of layer-resolved electronic wavefunctions. Here, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Kryštof Kolář , Kang Yang , Felix von Oppen , Christophe Mora

Two-dimensional moir\'e Chern bands provide an exceptional platform for exploring a variety of many-body quantum phases at zero magnetic field within a lattice system. One particular intriguing possibility is that flat Chern bands can, in…