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We provide an effective description of a particle-hole symmetric state of electrons in a half-filled Landau level, starting from the traditional approach pioneered by Halperin, Lee and Read. Specifically, we study a system consisting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-02 Michael Mulligan , S. Raghu , Matthew P. A. Fisher

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

The single-particle spectral function for an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state in the presence of a scalar short-ranged attractive impurity potential is calculated via exact diagonalization within the spherical geometry. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

Recently, many numerical evidences of fractional Chern insulator, i.e. the fractional quantum Hall states on lattices, are proposed when a Chern band is partially filled. Some trial wavefunctions of fractional Chern insulators can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-13 Chao-Ming Jian , Xiao-Liang Qi

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…

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), having properties similar to those of the fractional quantum Hall effect, have been established numerically in various toy models. To fully explore their fundamental physics and to develop practical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-26 Wei Li , Zheng Liu , Yong-Shi Wu , Yan Chen

We investigate a fractional Chern insulator (FCI) candidate arising from Moir\'e bands with higher Chern number C=2 on a magic angle twisted bilayer checkboard lattice (MATBCB). There are two nearly flat low lying bands in the single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Jia-Zheng Ma , Rui-Zhen Huang , Guo-Yi Zhu , Ji-Yao Chen , Dao-Xin Yao

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

We argue that a correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field analogous to the Laughlin state at filling $1/m$. We introduce a variant of the Laughlin wavefunction for electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Yichen Hu , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane

Recent experiments on the twisted semiconductor bilayer system $t$MoTe$_2$ have observed integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects, which occur in topological moir\'e bands at zero magnetic field. Here, we present a global phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu

We investigate broken rotational symmetry (BRS) states for the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at 1/3-filling of the valence Landau level (LL). Recent Monte Carlo calculations by Musaelian and Joynt [J. Phys.: Condens.\ Matter {\bf…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Orion Ciftja , C. Wexler

Particle-hole symmetry breaking in the fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been studied both theoretically and experimentally with most works focusing on non-Abelian states in the second electronic Landau level. In this work, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-19 Eduardo Palacios , Michael R. Peterson

We construct an effective Hamiltonian for electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime for GaAs and graphene that takes into account Landau level mixing (for both GaAs and graphene) and subband mixing (for GaAs, due to the nonzero width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Michael R. Peterson , Chetan Nayak

We present a quantitative study of most prominent incompressible quantum Hall states in the partially filled first excited Landau level (LL1) which have been recently studied experimentally by Choi et al. The pseudopotential describing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 George E. Simion , John J. Quinn

A theory is developed for the paired even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level. We show that electrons bind to quantized vortices to form composite fermions, interacting through an exact instantaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuan-Ming Lu , Yue Yu , Ziqiang Wang

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

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

Recently, fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects have been discovered in two-dimensional moir\'{e} materials when a topologically nontrivial band with Chern number $\mathcal{C}=1$ is partially doped. Remarkably, superlattice Bloch bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vo Tien Phong , Cyprian Lewandowski

We investigate the fate of Laughlin's wave-function in ideal Chern bands which can be mapped to generalized zero Landau levels in spatially dependent magnetic fields. By exploiting its exact mapping onto a classical Coulomb gas and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Saranyo Moitra , Inti Sodemann Villadiego