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In twisted van der Waals materials, local atomic relaxation can alter the underlying electronic structure. Characterizing lattice reconstruction and its susceptibility to strain is essential for understanding emergent electronic states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jesse C. Hoke , Yifan Li , Yuwen Hu , Julian May-Mann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Trithep Devakul , Benjamin E. Feldman

Extending moir\'{e} graphene beyond twisted bilayers, helical trilayer graphene has shown topological bands and correlated states with reshaped moir\'{e} periodicity. Here we develop a theoretical framework for helical multilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Kyungjin Shin , Nicolas Leconte , Jeil Jung , Hongki Min

The interplay of electronic interactions and nontrivial topology can give rise to a wealth of exotic quantum states. A notable example is the formation of Wigner crystals driven by strong electron-electron interactions. When these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Hanxiao Xiang , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Naitian Liu , Wenqiang Zhou , Qianmei Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Na Xin , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

In three dimensional (3D) momentum space of solid crystal, a topological phase boundary separating the Chern insulating layers from normal insulating layers may exist, where the gap must be closed, resulting in a "Chern semi-metal" state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Gang Xu , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) realized in fractional quantum Hall systems subject to a periodic potential are topological phases of matter for which space group symmetries play an important role. In particular, lattice dislocations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Christina Knapp , Eric M. Spanton , Andrea F. Young , Chetan Nayak , Michael P. Zaletel

A Chern metal is a two-dimensional metallic state of matter carrying chiral edge states. It can emerge as a doped Chern insulator, but theoretical studies have also predicted its emergence near a Kondo breakdown separating a metallic chiral…

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 interface between two-dimensional (2D) crystals often forms a Moire superstructure that imposes a new periodicity, which is a key element in realizing complex electronic phases as evidenced in twisted bilayer graphene. A combined angle…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Hayoon Im , Suji Im , Kyoo Kim , Ji-Eun Lee , Jinwoong Hwang , Sung-Kwan Mo , Choongyu Hwang

Recent discoveries of zero-field fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials have attracted intensive research interests. However, most current theoretical and experimental attempts focus on systems with low Chern number bands, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-07 Chonghao Wang , Xiaoyang Shen , Ruiping Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

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

We show that, quite generically, a [111] slab of spin-orbit coupled pyrochlore lattice exhibits surface states whose constant energy curves take the shape of Fermi arcs, localized to different surfaces depending on their quasimomentum.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 E. J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu , M. Trescher , R. Moessner , M. Udagawa

The flat bands resulting from moir\'e superlattices in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) and ABC-trilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (ABC-TLG/hBN) have been shown to give rise to fascinating correlated electron…

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 develop a Fermionic Chern-Simons (CS) theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene with SU(4) symmetry, arising from the spin and the valley degrees of freedom, which involves four distinct CS gauge fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Sanhita Modak , Sudhansu S. Mandal , K. Sengupta

We investigate the problem of intertwined orders in fractional Chern insulators by considering lattice fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states arising from pairing of composite fermions in the square-lattice Hofstadter model. At certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Ramanjit Sohal , Eduardo Fradkin

Lattice models forming bands with higher Chern number offer an intriguing possibility for new phases of matter with no analogue in continuum Landau levels. Here, we establish the existence of a number of new bulk insulating states at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-06 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Heng Fan , Andreas M. Laeuchli

The appearance of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e systems can be rationalized by the presence of a fictitious magnetic field associated with the spatial texture of layer-resolved electronic wavefunctions. Here, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Kryštof Kolář , Kang Yang , Felix von Oppen , Christophe Mora

The breaking of time-reversal symmetry is a crucial ingredient to topological bands. It can occur intrisically in materials with magnetic order, or be induced by external fields, such as magnetic fields in quantum Hall systems, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Utso Bhattacharya , Swati Chaudhary , Tobias Grass , Allan S. Johnson , Simon Wall , Maciej Lewenstein

Moir\'e network formation in graphene bilayers breaks stacking symmetry, giving rise to domain walls that host topologically protected one-dimensional states. Here we show that these systems undergo an additional symmetry breaking at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Xue Yan , Kaiyun Chen , Yuan Yan , Fan Feng , Minglei Sun , Christian Brandl , Jefferson Zhe Liu

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