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Non-Abelian (NA) fractional topological states with quasi-particles obeying NA braiding statistics have attracted intensive attentions for both its fundamental nature and the prospect for topological quantum computation. To date, there are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Hong Yao , Yi-Fei Wang

The rapid advances in the study of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) raise a fundamental question: while initially discovered in flat Chern bands motivated by their topological equivalence to Landau levels, is single- particle band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Hongyu Lu , Wang Yao

Expanding the moire material library continues to unlock novel quantum phases and emergent electronic behaviors. Here, we introduce PbI2 into the moire family and investigate the magnetotransport properties of moire superlattice in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Sun Yan , M. Monteverde , V. Derkach , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , F. Chiodi , H. Bouchiat , A. D. Chepelianskii

Real Chern insulators have attracted great interest, but so far, their material realization is limited to nonmagnetic crystals and to systems without spin-orbit coupling. Here, we reveal magnetic real Chern insulator (MRCI) state in a…

Topological flat bands play an essential role in inducing exotic interacting physics, ranging from fractional Chern insulators to superconductivity, in moir\'e materials. In this work, we propose a design principle for realizing topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yunzhe Liu , Anoj Aryal , Kaijie Yang , Dumitru Calugaru , Zhenyao Fang , Haoyu Hu , Qimin Yan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Chao-xing Liu

In this thesis, I will present studies on the collective modes of the fractional quantum Hall states, which are bulk neutral excitations reflecting the incompressibility that defines the topological nature of these states. It was first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-11 Bo Yang

Moir\'e superlattices based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a highly versatile and fruitful platform for exploring correlated topological electronic phases. One of the most remarkable examples is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Ming Xie , Mohammad Hafezi , Sankar Das Sarma

We studied magnetic excitations in a low-temperature ferroelectric phase of the multiferroic YMn2O5 using inelastic neutron scattering (INS). We identify low-energy magnon modes and establish a correspondence between the magnon peaks…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 J. -H. Kim , M. A. van. der. Vegte , A. Scaramucci , S. Artyukhin , J. -H. Chung , S. Park , S. -W. Cheong , M. Mostovoy , S. -H. Lee

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 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

We investigate the effect of remote band mixing on the stability of fractional Chern insulators in a family of models that approximate continuum descriptions of moir\'e materials. Our results suggest that the experimentally observed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Jingtian Shi , Cristian Voinea , Paweł Potasz , Jennifer Cano

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

We report momentum resolved charge excitations in a one dimensional (1-D) Mott insulator studied using high resolution (~ 325 meV) inelastic x-ray scattering over the entire Brillouin zone for the first time. Excitations at the insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Z. Hasan , P. A. Montano , E. D. Isaacs , Z-X. Shen , H. Eisaki , S. K. Sinha , Z. Islam , N. Motoyama , S. Uchida

Transition metal dichalcogenides layered nano-crystals are emerging as promising candidates for next-generation optoelectronic and quantum devices. In such systems, the interaction between excitonic states and atomic vibrations is crucial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Jianbo Hu , Yang Xiang , Beatrice Matilde Ferrari , Emilio Scalise , Giovanni Maria Vanacore

The emergence of topologically non-trivial flat bands in moir\'e materials provides an opportunity to explore the interplay between topological physics and correlation effects, leading to the recent experimental realization of interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Kaijie Yang , Yunzhe Liu , Frank Schindler , Chao-Xing Liu

Electronic and topological properties of MoS2 monolayers endowed with 3d transition metal (TM) adatoms (V-Fe) are explored by using ab initio methods and k.p models. Without the consideration of the Hubbard U interaction, the V, Cr, and Fe…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-20 Xinyuan Wei , Bao Zhao , Jiayong Zhang , Yang Xue , Yun Li , Zhongqin Yang

Moir{\'e} superlattice realized in two-dimensional heterostructures offers an exciting platform to access strongly-correlated electronic states. In this work, we study transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) Moir{\'e} superlattices with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Heqiu Li , Umesh Kumar , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

We report the discovery of a new form of inductance in the bulk ferrimagnet Mn3Si2Te6, which features strong spin-orbit coupling, large magnetic anisotropy, and pronounced magnetoelastic interactions. Below its Curie temperature, Mn3Si2Te6…

Two-dimensional moir\'e Chern bands provide an exceptional platform for exploring a variety of many-body quantum phases at zero magnetic field within a lattice system. One particular intriguing possibility is that flat Chern bands can, in…

We study transitions between topological phases featuring emergent fractionalized excitations in two-dimensional models for Mott insulators with spin and orbital degrees of freedom. The models realize fermionic quantum critical points in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-16 Urban F. P. Seifert , Xiao-Yu Dong , Sreejith Chulliparambil , Matthias Vojta , Hong-Hao Tu , Lukas Janssen