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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

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 analyze the collective magneto-roton excitations of bosonic Laughlin $\nu=1/2$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on the torus and of their analog on the lattice, the fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). We show that, by applying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-23 C. Repellin , T. Neupert , Z. Papic , N. Regnault

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

The recent realization of Hofstadter spectra and fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has introduced a new ingredient, a periodic lattice potential, to the study of quantum Hall phases. While the fractionalized states in moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Bishoy M. Kousa , Nicolás Morales-Durán , Tobias M. R. Wolf , Eslam Khalaf , Allan H. MacDonald

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 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

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

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 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

We propose a generalized composite fermion (CF) theory for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) by adapting the quantum mechanics approach of CFs. The theoretical framework naturally produces an effective CF Hamiltonian and a wavefunction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-12 Hao Jin , Junren Shi

Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated by recent bulk observations of fractional Chern insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Yan-Qi Wang , Johannes Motruk , Andrey Grankin , Mohammad Hafezi

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

Edge excitations are the defining signature of chiral topologically ordered systems. In continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, these excitations are described by the chiral Luttinger liquid ($\chi$LL) theory. Whether this effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Xiao-Han Yang , Ji-Yao Chen , Xiao-Yu Dong

We review various features of interacting Abelian topological phases of matter in two spatial dimensions, placing particular emphasis on fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) and fractional topological insulators (FTIs). We highlight aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Thomas Iadecola , Luiz H. Santos , Christopher Mudry

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

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…

Recent experimental advances have uncovered fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states in twisted MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) systems under zero magnetic field. Understanding the interaction effects on topological phases within realistic model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Jialin Chen , Qiaoyi Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Wei Li

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…

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
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