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A flat band with Chern number $C=0$, and well isolated from the rest of Hilbert space by a gap much larger than interaction strength, is a context that has not been regarded as relevant for fractional quantum Hall physics. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zuzhang Lin , Hongyu Lu , Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

In contrast to the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect, where electron density fixes the applied magnetic field, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) can realize FQH states in comparatively weak or even zero magnetic fields. Previous…

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

In this paper we construct fully symmetric wavefunctions for the spin-polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCI) and time-reversal-invariant fractional topological insulators (FTI) in two dimensions using the parton approach. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-23 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ying Ran

The experimental discoveries of fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects under zero magnetic fields in both transition metal dichalcogenide and pentalayer graphene moir\'e superlattices have aroused significant research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhongqing Guo , Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. These states arise from valley ferromagnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Patrick J. Ledwith , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analogue of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Recent experiments have demonstrated the existence of FCIs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Minxuan Wang , Oskar Vafek , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a prime example of topological quantum many-body phenomena, arising from the interplay between strong electron correlation, topological order, and time reversal symmetry breaking. Recently, a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Zhurun Ji , Heonjoon Park , Mark E. Barber , Chaowei Hu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jiun-Haw Chu , Xiaodong Xu , Zhi-xun Shen

The rapid advances in the study of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) raise a fundamental question: while initially discovered in flat Chern bands motivated by their topological equivalence to Landau levels, is single- particle band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Hongyu Lu , Wang Yao

The realization of interacting topological states of matter such as fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in cold atom systems has recently come within experimental reach due to the engineering of optical lattices with synthetic gauge fields…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-03 Johannes Motruk , Ilyoun Na

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

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

We propose a set of schemes to create and probe fractionally charged excitations of a fractional Chern insulator state in an optical lattice. This includes the creation of localized quasiparticles and quasiholes using both static local…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-03 Mantas Račiūnas , F. Nur Ünal , Egidijus Anisimovas , André Eckardt

The recent theoretical discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has provided an important new way to realize topologically ordered states in lattice models. In earlier works, on-site and nearest neighbor Hubbard-like interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-05 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Eliot Kapit

Motivated by the recent experimental realizations of hyperbolic lattices in circuit quantum electrodynamics and the research interest in the non-Euclidean generalization of topological phenomena, we investigate the Chern insulator phases in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Zheng-Rong Liu , Chun-Bo Hua , Tan Peng , Bin Zhou

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

Recent experimental advances have uncovered fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states in twisted MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) systems under zero magnetic field. Understanding the interaction effects on topological phases within realistic model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Jialin Chen , Qiaoyi Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Wei Li

We devise local lattice models whose ground states are model fractional Chern insulators---Abelian and non-Abelian topologically ordered states characterized by exact ground state degeneracies at any finite size and infinite entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-31 Jörg Behrmann , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The stability of $\nu=1/3$ Fractional Chern Insulator (FCI) phase is analysed on the example of checkerboard lattice undergoing a transition into Lieb lattice. The transition is performed by the addition of a second sublattice, whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-08 Błażej Jaworowski , Paweł Potasz , Andrei Manolescu

We investigate the fate of hardcore bosons in a Harper-Hofstadter model which was experimentally realized by Aidelsburger et al. [Nature Physics 11 , 162 (2015)] at half filling of the lowest band. We discuss the stability of an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-20 Johannes Motruk , Frank Pollmann