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Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

Long-range interactions drive some of the rich phenomenology of quasiparticle collective states in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime. We test for analogues in models of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) derived from a screened…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-23 Mengsu Chen , V. W. Scarola

The search for candidate materials for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has mainly focused on the topological and geometrical structures of single-particle Chern bands. However, there are inherent limitations in approaches that neglect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

We formulate a Chern-Simons composite fermion theory for Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs), whereby bare fermions are mapped into composite fermions coupled to a lattice Chern-Simons gauge theory. We apply this construction to a Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-10 Ramanjit Sohal , Luiz H. Santos , Eduardo Fradkin

We study fermions and hardcore bosons with long range dipolar interactions at fractional fillings in a topological checkerboard lattice with short-range hoppings up to next-next-nearest neighbors \cite{Neupert2011}. We consider the case…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-08 Tian-Sheng Zeng , Lan Yin

The search for fractional quantized Hall phases in the absence of a magnetic field has primarily targeted flat-band systems that mimic the features of a Landau level. In an alternative approach, the fractional excitonic insulator (FEI) has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-31 Steven Gassner , Ady Stern , C. L. Kane

In the absence of time reversal symmetry, orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of topology and interactions, with particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators where topological edge states carry large equilibrium…

Fractional Chern insulators are new realizations of fractional quantum Hall states in lattice systems without orbital magnetic field. These states can be mapped onto conventional fractional quantum Hall states through the Wannier state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-04 Ching Hua Lee , Xiao-Liang Qi

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We investigate the many-body ground states in a family of fractionally-filled bands where the Berry curvature fluctuations can be tuned while maintaining ideal quantum geometry. We numerically find that the neutral gap of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jingtian Shi , Jennifer Cano , Nicolás Morales-Durán

Chiral graviton modes are hallmark collective excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) liquids. However, their existence on the lattice, where continuum symmetries that protect them from decay are lost, is still an open and urgent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Min Long , Zeno Bacciconi , Hongyu Lu , Hernan B. Xavier , Zi Yang Meng , Marcello Dalmonte

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

Infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) provide a powerful variational framework for two-dimensional quantum matter and have been widely used to capture bosonic topological order, including chiral spin liquids. Here we extend this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Hao Chen , Titus Neupert , Juraj Hasik

We provide a detailed study of Abelian quasiparticles of valley polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) residing in the top valence band of twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) at hole filling $\nu_h=2/3$. We construct a tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhao Liu , Bohao Li , Yuhao Shi , Fengcheng Wu

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect has recently been experimentally observed in zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCI). However, an outstanding challenge is the presence of a substantial longitudinal resistance $R_{xx}$ (a…

We provide a detailed study of the Abelian quasiholes of $\nu=1/2$ bosonic fractional quantum Hall states on the torus geometry and in fractional Chern insulators. We find that the density distribution of a quasihole in a fractional Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-22 Zhao Liu , R. N. Bhatt , Nicolas Regnault

The interplay between topology and strong interactions gives rise to a variety of exotic quantum phases, including fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and their lattice analogs - fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Such topologically…

We consider a model of hard-core bosons on a lattice, half-filling a Chern band such that the system has a continuous transition between a fractional Chern insulator (FCI) and a superfluid state (SF) depending on the bandwidth to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Tevž Lotrič , Steven H. Simon

We develop an interpretable, data-driven framework to quantify how single-particle band geometry governs the stability of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Using large-scale exact diagonalization, we evaluate an FCI metric that yields a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Oriol Mayné i Comas , André Grossi Fonseca , Sachin Vaidya , Marin Soljačić

The recent experimental discovery of the zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) in twisted $\mathrm{MoTe_2}$ moir\'e superlattices has sparked immense interest in this exotic topological quantum state. The FCI has also been observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Heqiu Li , Ying Su , Yong Baek Kim , Hae-Young Kee , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin