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Superconductivity arising from fully spin-polarized, repulsively interacting electrons can host intrinsically chiral Cooper pairs and Majorana zero modes, yet no concrete microscopic route to such a state has been established. Motivated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-29 Taige Wang , Michael P. Zaletel

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) with crystalline symmetry possess topological invariants that fundamentally have no analog in continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we demonstrate through numerical calculations on model wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

Due to the forming of low-energy flat bands, the moir\'e superlattices of the transition metal dichalcogenides are fascinating platforms for studying novel correlated states when such flat bands are fractionally filled, with the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Bingbing Wang , Junxi Yu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Twisted bilayer MoTe2 is a prototypical moire material in which long-wavelength superlattices amplify electron correlations, enabling a wealth of emergent quantum phases. To date, experimental efforts have focused primarily on small twist…

Moir\'e-induced narrow electronic bands in transition metal dichalcogenide superlattices support many correlated quantum phases characterized by novel charge, flavor, and topological orders. Among these, magnetic ordering emerges as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

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

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

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

As lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall systems, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) exhibit enigmatic physical properties resulting from the intricate interplay between single-body and many-body physics. In particular, the design of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-31 Ching Hua Lee , Martin Claassen , Ronny Thomale

Moir\'e flatbands with high Chern numbers (C>1) offer opportunities to study the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects that go beyond the Landau level paradigm with C=1, which remain unexplored yet. Here, we target the novel topological…

Several moir\'e systems created by various twisted bilayers have manifested magnetism under flatband conditions leading to enhanced interaction effects. We theoretically study stability of moir\'e flatband ferromagnetism against collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-15 Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

When interacting spins in condensed matter order ferromagnetically, their ground state wave function is topologically trivial. Nonetheless, in two dimensions, the ferromagnetic state can support spin excitations with nontrivial topology, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Alexander Mook , Sebastián A. Díaz , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The quantum geometry of Bloch wavefunctions,encoded in the Berry curvature and quantum metric, is believed to be a decisive ingredient in stabilizing fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect(i.e., fractional Chern insulator, FCI, at…

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

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 theoretically investigate magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in two-dimensional ferromagnets. The bulk bands of hybrid excitations, which are referred to as magnon-polarons, are analytically shown to be topologically nontrivial, possessing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee

We investigate a fractional Chern insulator (FCI) candidate arising from Moir\'e bands with higher Chern number C=2 on a magic angle twisted bilayer checkboard lattice (MATBCB). There are two nearly flat low lying bands in the single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Jia-Zheng Ma , Rui-Zhen Huang , Guo-Yi Zhu , Ji-Yao Chen , Dao-Xin Yao

Thermal fluctuation in magnets will bring temperature-dependent self-energy corrections to the magnons, however, their effects on the topological orders of magnons is not well explored. Here we demonstrate that such corrections can induce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Yun-Mei Li , Xi-Wang Luo , Kai Chang

We propose a "minimal" fractional topological insulator (mFTI), motivated by the recent experimental report on the signatures of FTI at total filling factor $\nu_{\rm tot} = 3$ in a transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'{e} system. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-17 Chao-Ming Jian , Meng Cheng , Cenke Xu

Due to the presence of flat Chern bands, moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a platform to realize strongly correlated topological phases of fermions such as fractional Chern insulators. TMDs are also known to host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Paul Froese , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner