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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

The discovery of hyperbolic lattice, a discretized regularization of non-Euclidean space with constant negative curvature, has provided an unprecedented platform to extend topological phases of matter from Euclidean to non-Euclidean spaces.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jingming Chen , Linyun Yang , Zhen Gao

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

Fractionally charged elementary excitations, the quasi-electron and quasi-hole, are one of the hallmarks of the fractional Chern insulator (FCI). In this work, we observe that spontaneous spin polarization in twisted MoTe$_2$ leads to…

We propose the realization of interaction-driven insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Through extensive many-body exact diagonalization, we provide compelling evidence for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Yuchen Liu , Zheng Zhu

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 energy dispersion of fermions or bosons vanishes in momentum space if destructive quantum interference occurs in a frustrated Kagome lattice with only nearest-neighbour (NN) hopping. A discrete flat band (FB) without any dispersion is…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-16 Zhi Li , Jincheng Zhuang , Lan Chen , Li Wang , Haifeng Feng , Xun Xu , Xiaolin Wang , Chao Zhang , Kehui Wu , Shi Xue Dou , Zhenpeng Hu , Yi Du

The quantum metric of single-particle wave functions in topological flatbands plays a crucial role in determining the stability of fractional Chern insulating (FCI) states. Here, we unravel that the quantum metric causes the many-body Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-13 Ang-Kun Wu , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Topological quantum states have been proposed and investigated on two-dimensional flat surfaces or lattices with different geometries like the plane, cylinder and torus. Here, we study quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) or Chern insulator (CI)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

We establish a variational principle for properly mapping a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state to a fractional Chern insulator (FCI). We find that the mapping has a gauge freedom which could generate a class of FCI ground state wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

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

We construct a class of lattice Hamiltonians whose single-particle spectrum consists of an arbitrary number of exactly degenerate flat bands that reproduce the analytic structure of the first $p$ Landau levels restricted to the lattice.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Joseph R. Cruise , Alexander Seidel

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics. It is described by a simple Laughlin wavefunction and has been thoroughly studied both theoretically and experimentally. In lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-07 Anne E. B. Nielsen , German Sierra , J. Ignacio Cirac

Moir\'e fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are a novel class of quantum matter that realizes fractional quantum Hall (FQH) physics in zero magnetic field and provides a platform for exploring unconventional collective excitations. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Xiaoyang Shen , Zijian Zhou , Ruiping Guo , Renqi Wang , Wenhui Duan , Chong Wang , Yong Xu

Fractional Chern insulators arise in topologically nontrivial flat bands, characterized by an integer Chern number C that corresponds to the number of dissipationless edge states in the non-interacting regime. Higher Chern numbers can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Ying-Xing Ding , Wen-Tong Li , Li-Min Zhang , Yu-Biao Wu , Duanlu Zhou , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

We present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect. While the latter conventionally arises in semiconductor heterostructures at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

Fractional Chern insulators are the proposed phases of matter mimicking the physics of fractional quantum Hall states on a lattice without an overall magnetic field. The notion of Floquet fractional Chern insulators refers to the potential…

We show how the phases of interacting particles in topological flat bands, known as fractional Chern insulators, can be adiabatically connected to incompressible fractional quantum Hall liquids in the lowest Landau-level of an externally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Thomas Scaffidi , Gunnar Moller

Topological band theory establishes a standardized framework for classifying different types of topological matters. Recent investigations have shown that hyperbolic lattices in non-Euclidean space can also be characterized by hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Weixuan Zhang , Fengxiao Di , Xingen Zheng , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Recent breakthroughs in hyperbolic lattices have expanded the study of topological phases of matter from Euclidean to non-Euclidean spaces. However, prior work has mostly focused on spatial topological states at the single outer edge of…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jingming Chen , Zebin Zhu , Minqi Cheng , Linyun Yang , Yuxin Zhong , Zhen Gao
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