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A key property of topologically ordered systems, such as Quantum Hall states, is the existence of excitations obeying fractional quantum statistics - anyons. We develop a theory for multicomponent counterflow states where an ordinary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Jun-Xiao Hui , T. H. Hansson , Egor Babaev

It has been demonstrated numerically, mainly by considering ground state properties, that fractional quantum Hall physics can appear in lattice systems, but it is very difficult to study the anyons directly. Here, I propose to solve this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-29 Anne E. B. Nielsen

We study the interfaces between lattice Laughlin states at different fillings. We propose a class of model wavefunctions for such systems constructed using conformal field theory. We find a nontrivial form of charge conservation at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-02 Błażej Jaworowski , Anne E. B. Nielsen

An interesting route to the realization of topological Chern bands in ultracold atomic gases is through the use of optical flux lattices. These models differ from the tight-binding real-space lattice models of Chern insulators that are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Sterdyniak , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nigel R. Cooper , N. Regnault

The combination of interactions and static gauge fields plays a pivotal role in our understanding of strongly-correlated quantum matter. Cold atomic gases endowed with a synthetic dimension are emerging as an ideal platform to…

Existing techniques for synthesizing gauge fields are able to bring a two-dimensional cloud of harmonically trapped bosonic atoms into a regime where the occupied single-particle states are restricted to the lowest Landau level (LLL).…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-04 Tobias Graß , Bruno Juliá-Díaz , Maciej Lewenstein

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, known for their robust topological order and the emergence of non-Abelian anyons, have captured significant interest due to the appealing applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Bottom-up…

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

We demonstrate the experimental feasibility of incompressible fractional quantum Hall-like states in ultra-cold two dimensional rapidly rotating dipolar Fermi gases. In particular, we argue that the state of the system at filling fraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Baranov , Klaus Osterloh , M. Lewenstein

Using the parton construction, we build a three-dimensional (3D) multilayer fractional quantum Hall state with average filling \nu = 1/3 per layer that is qualitatively distinct from a stacking of weakly coupled Laughlin states. The state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 Michael Levin , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Anyons are quasiparticles with fractional charge and statistics that arise in strongly correlated two-dimensional systems such as the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect and fractional Chern insulators (FCI). Interactions between anyons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

The Laughlin states for $N$ interacting electrons at the plateaus of the fractional Hall effect are studied in the thermodynamic limit of large $N$. It is shown that this limit leads to the semiclassical regime for these states, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 A. Cappelli , C. A. Trugenberger , G. R. Zemba

There has been a significant interest in the last years in finding fractional quantum Hall physics in lattice models, but it is not always clear how these models connect to the corresponding models in continuum systems. Here we introduce a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-04 Ivan D. Rodriguez , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Laughlin quasiparticles are the elementary excitations of a highly-correlated fractional quantum Hall electron fluid. They have fractional charge and obey fractional statistics. The quasiparticles can propagate quantum-coherently in chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 F. E. Camino , Wei Zhou , V. J. Goldman

The energy spectra and wavefunctions of up to 14 interacting quasielectrons (QE's) in the Laughlin nu=1/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state are investigated using exact numerical diagonalization. It is shown that at sufficiently high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi , John J. Quinn

Laughlin's thought experiment of quantized charge pumping is central to understanding the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) and the topological origin of its conductance quantization. Its direct experimental observation, however, has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Bjarke S. Jessen , Maëlle Kapfer , Yuhao Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , Oded Zilberberg

Anyon collision experiments have recently demonstrated the ability to discriminate between fermionic and anyonic statistics. However, only one type of anyons associated with the simple Laughlin state at filling factor $\nu=1/3$ has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 M. Ruelle , E. Frigerio , J. -M. Berroir , B. Plaçais , J. Rech , A. Cavanna , U. Gennser , Y. Jin , G. Fève

We report on the numerically exact simulation of the dissipative dynamics governed by quantum master equations that feature fractional quantum Hall states as unique steady states. In particular, for the paradigmatic Hofstadter model, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-19 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich

In view of the evolution from the integer to fractional quantum Hall effect, the next frontier in the research of topological insulators is to investigate what happens in fractionally filled topological flat bands. A particularly pressing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-27 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Kwon Park

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