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Commonly, a two-dimensional topological insulator is characterized by non-zero Chern numbers associated with its band structure. In our work, we present the experimental demonstration of an anomalous topological insulator, for which the…

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

We study the many-body physics in twisted bilayer graphene coupled to periodic driving of a circularly polarized light when electron-electron interactions are taken into account. In the limit of high driving frequency $\Omega$, we use…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Peng-Sheng Hu , Yi-Han Zhou , Zhao Liu

We propose the realization of interaction-driven insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Through extensive many-body exact diagonalization, we provide compelling evidence for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Yuchen Liu , Zheng Zhu

Superconductivity has been observed in twisted MoTe2 within the anomalous Hall metal parent state. Key signatures-including a fully spin/valley polarized normal state, anomalous Hall resistivity hysteresis, superconducting phase adjacent to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Nianlong Zou , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ammar Jahin , Tingxin Li , Shi-Zeng Lin , Yang Zhang

Periodic networks composed of capacitors and inductors have been demonstrated to possess topological properties with respect to incident electromagnetic waves. Here, we develop an analogy between the mathematical description of waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Rafael Haenel , Timothy Branch , Marcel Franz

The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

In bilayer graphene rotationally faulted to theta=1.1 degrees, interlayer tunneling and rotational misalignment conspire to create a pair of low energy flat band that have been found to host various correlated phenomena at partial filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Yu Saito , Jingyuan Ge , Louk Rademaker , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dmitry A. Abanin , Andrea F. Young

The dominance of Coulomb interactions over kinetic energy of electrons in narrow, non-trivial moir\'{e} bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) gives rise to a variety of correlated phases such as correlated insulators,…

The breaking of time-reversal symmetry is a crucial ingredient to topological bands. It can occur intrisically in materials with magnetic order, or be induced by external fields, such as magnetic fields in quantum Hall systems, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Utso Bhattacharya , Swati Chaudhary , Tobias Grass , Allan S. Johnson , Simon Wall , Maciej Lewenstein

Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) attracts an expanding experimental interest recently for exhibiting a variety of topological and magnetic states even at zero magnetic field. Most of the studies right now focus on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Taige Wang , Minxuan Wang , Woochang Kim , Steven G. Louie , Liang Fu , Michael P. Zaletel

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

The quantization of transport and its resilience to backscattering are key features for leveraging topological matter in applications that demand stringent noise mitigation, such as metrology and quantum information processing. Due to the…

Graphene-based moire superlattices provide a versatile platform for exploring novel correlated and topological electronic states, driven by enhanced Coulomb interactions within flat bands. The intrinsic tunability of graphene s multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-16 Jian Zheng , Size Wu , Kai Liu , Bosai Lyu , Shuhan Liu , Yating Sha , Zhengxian Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinfeng Jia , Zhiwen Shi , Guorui Chen

Using the infinite density matrix renormalization group method on an infinite cylinder geometry, we characterize the $1/3$ fractional Chern insulator state in the Haldane honeycomb lattice model at $\nu=1/3$ filling of the lowest band and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-06 Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Motruk , Michael P. Zaletel , Frank Pollmann

Compared with twisted bilayer graphene, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) provides another important platform to realize the moir\'e flat bands. In this paper, we first calculate the valley Chern number phase diagram of TDBG in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li , Zi-Yue Zhang

A peculiar feature of the majority of three dimensional topological insulator surface states studied experimentally thus far, namely their particle-hole asymmetry, makes quantum oscillations (Shubnikov de Haas and de Haas van Alphen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Anthony R. Wright

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoTe$_2$, provide a versatile platform for exploring correlated topological phases. This work investigates the interplay of perpendicular magnetic and electric fields in tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Tianhong Lu , Yi-Ming Wu , Luiz H. Santos

We provide a parton construction of wavefunctions and effective field theories for fractional Chern insulators. We also analyze a strong coupling expansion in lattice gauge theory that enables us to reliably map the parton gauge theory onto…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 John McGreevy , Brian Swingle , Ky-Anh Tran

Integer-valued topological indices, characterizing nonlocal properties of quantum states of matter, are known to directly predict robust physical properties of equilibrium systems. The Chern number, e.g., determines the quantized Hall…