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We investigate topological band structures of a kagome system coupled to a circularly polarized cavity mode, using a model based on a muffin-tin potential and quantum light-matter interaction. We show that Chern insulating phases emerge in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Hikaru Goto , Ryo Okugawa , Takami Tohyama

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…

Recent observations of the fractional anomalous quantum Hall effect in moir\'e materials have reignited the interest in fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). The chiral limit in which analytic Landau level-like single-particle states form an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-06 Hui Liu , Kang Yang , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We perform an extensive exact diagonalization study of interaction driven insulators in spin- and valley-polarized moir\'{e} flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate. In addition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

We discuss the low-energy limit of three-orbital Kondo-lattice and Hubbard models describing $t_{2g}$ orbitals on a triangular lattice near half-filling. We analyze how very flat bands with non-trivial topological character, a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Stefanos Kourtis , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Maria Daghofer

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

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) are lattice generalizations of the conventional fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases. They typically arise in a 2D lattice without time-reversal symmetry when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

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

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

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is the best studied physical platform featuring moire potential induced narrow bands with non-trivial topology and strong electronic correlations. Despite their significance, the Chern insulating states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

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

The real Chern insulator state, featuring nontrivial real Chern number and second-order boundary modes, has been revealed in a few two-dimensional systems. The concept can be extended to three dimensions (3D), but a proper material…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-28 Xu-Tao Zeng , Bin-Bin Liu , Fan Yang , Zeying Zhang , Y. X. Zhao , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

We investigate an interaction-driven transition between crystalline and liquid states of strongly correlated spinless fermions within topological flat bands at low density (with filling factors $\nu=1/5$, $1/7$, $1/9$). Using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-10 Michał Kupczyński , Błażej Jaworowski , Arkadiusz Wójs

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

Recent development on fractional Chern insulators and proximate phases call for a real space representation of isolated Chern bands. Here we propose a new method for a general construction of optimally localized Wannier functions from such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Fang Xie , Yuan Fang , Lei Chen , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

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 show that pressure applied to twisted WSe$_2$ can enhance the many-body gap and region of stability of a fractional Chern insulator at filling $\nu = 1/3$. Our results are based on exact diagonalization of a continuum model, whose…

Fully taking into account of the honeycomb lattice structure, fractional quantum Hall states of graphene are considered by a pseudopotential projected into the n = 0 Landau band. By using a chirality as an internal degree of freedom, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-16 Koji Kudo , Yasuhiro Hatsugai