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Moir\'e materials have emerged as a powerful platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. While recent experiments have unveiled fractional Chern insulators exhibiting the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect based on electrons or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

Breakthrough experiments have recently realized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials. However, all states observed are Abelian, the possible existence of more exotic non-Abelian FCIs remains controversial both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Hui Liu , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) unlocks exciting opportunities to explore emergent physical excitations arising from topological and geometric effects in novel phases of quantum matter. Here we investigate the intraband…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-24 Xiaoyang Shen , Chonghao Wang , Xiaodong Hu , Ruiping Guo , Hong Yao , Chong Wang , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The discovery of zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials has attracted intense interest in the interplay between topology and correlations. Here, we demonstrate that fractionalized topological order can emerge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Hui Liu , Raul Perea-Causin , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We review various features of interacting Abelian topological phases of matter in two spatial dimensions, placing particular emphasis on fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) and fractional topological insulators (FTIs). We highlight aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Thomas Iadecola , Luiz H. Santos , Christopher Mudry

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

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…

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…

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moire materials present a unique platform for exploring strongly correlated topological phases beyond the paradigm of ideal quantum geometry. While analytical approaches to FCIs and fractional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Ang-Kun Wu , Louis Primeau , Jingtao Zhang , Kai Sun , Yang Zhang , Shi-Zeng Lin

The discovery of Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs) in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ has sparked significant interest in fractional topological matter without external magnetic fields. Unlike the flat dispersion of Landau levels, moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Tianhong Lu , Luiz H. Santos

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

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 $\nu=3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Feng Chen , Wei-Wei Luo , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) were proposed theoretically about a decade ago. These exotic states of matter are fractional quantum Hall states realized when a nearly flat Chern band is partially filled, even in the absence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ying Ran

Moir\'e flatbands, occurring, e.g., in twisted bilayer graphene at magic angles, have attracted ample interest due to their high degree of experimental tunability and the intriguing possibility of generating novel strongly interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We propose a generalized composite fermion (CF) theory for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) by adapting the quantum mechanics approach of CFs. The theoretical framework naturally produces an effective CF Hamiltonian and a wavefunction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-12 Hao Jin , Junren Shi

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) are exotic phases of matter realized at partial filling of a Chern band that host fractionally charged anyon excitations. Recent numerical studies in several microscopic models reveal that increasing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhengyan Darius Shi , T. Senthil

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…

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…

Non-abelian anyons are highly desired for topological quantum computation purposes, with Majorana fermions providing a promising route, particularly zero modes with non-trivial mutual statistics. Yet realizing Majorana zero modes in matter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-23 Milan Kornjača , Victor L. Quito , Rebecca Flint

We study fermions on a triangular lattice model that exhibits topological flatbands characterized by nonzero Chern numbers. Our scheme stems from the well-known Hofstadter model but the next-nearest-neighbor hopping is introduced, which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-25 Dong Wang , Zhao Liu , Wu-Ming Liu , Jun-Peng Cao , Heng Fan
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