English
Related papers

Related papers: Moir\'e enhanced flat band in rhombohedral graphen…

200 papers

Topological flat bands formed in two-dimensional lattice systems offer unique opportunity to study the fractional phases of matter in the absence of an external magnetic field. Celebrated examples include fractional quantum anomalous Hall…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, first proposed in the Haldane model, is a paradigmatic example of the application of band topology in condensed matter physics. The recent experimental discoveries of high Chern number QAH effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

It has been well-known that topological phenomena with fractional excitations, i.e., the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) \cite{Tsui1982} will emerge when electrons move in Landau levels. In this letter, we report the discovery of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-13 D. N. Sheng , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Kai Sun , L. Sheng

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…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is an exotic quantum phenomenon originating from dissipation-less chiral channels at the sample edge. While the QAHE has been observed in magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs), exploiting…

Moir\'e materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is quantized even under zero magnetic field, is a direct…

In the search of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, the conventional wisdom is to start from a flat Chern band isolated from the rest of the Hilbert space by band gaps, so that many-body interaction can be projected to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Tixuan Tan , Feng-Ren Fan , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao

The integer quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a lattice analog of the quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field. This striking transport phenomenon occurs in electronic systems with topologically nontrivial bands and spontaneous…

We critically analyze the recently reported observation of integer (IQAHE) and fractional (FQAHE) quantum anomalous Hall effects at zero applied magnetic field in pentalayer graphene. Our quantitative activation and variable range hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The experimental discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in tunable moir\'e superlattices has sparked intense interest in exploring the interplay between topological order and symmetry breaking phases. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 Chuyi Tuo , Ming-Rui Li , Hong Yao

The phenomenon of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) was first experimentally observed 33 years ago. FQHE involves strong Coulomb interactions and correlations among the electrons, which leads to quasiparticles with fractional elementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Xi Lin , Rui -Rui Du , Xincheng Xie

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, a lattice analogue of fractional quantum Hall effect, offers a unique pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation and deep insights into the interplay of topology and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

In recent breakthrough experiments, twisted moir\'e layers of transition metal dichalcogenides are found to manifest both integer (IQAHE) and fractional (FQAHE) quantum anomalous Hall effects in zero applied magnetic field because of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Sankar Das Sarma , Ming Xie

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental quantum transport phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Until now, the only experimental realization of the QAHE has been observed for Cr/V-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ but at extremely low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Xinzhou Deng , Hualing Yang , Shifei Qi , Xiaohong Xu , Zhenhua Qiao

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

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

The topological electronic structure of crystalline materials often gives rise to intriguing surface states, such as Dirac surface states in topological insulators, Fermi arc surface states in Dirac semimetals, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Wenqiang Zhou , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a topological state of matter with a quantized Hall resistance. It has been observed in some two-dimensional insulating materials such as magnetic topological insulator films and twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Zhenyu Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen