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Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ near two-degree twists has emerged as a platform for exotic correlated topological phases, including ferromagnetism and a non-Abelian fractional spin Hall insulator. Here we reveal the unexpected emergence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Cheong-Eung Ahn , Donghae Seo , Gyeoul Lee , Youngwook Kim , Gil Young Cho

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

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

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

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 fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect was recently discovered in twisted MoTe2 bilayers (tMoTe2). Experiments to date have revealed Chern insulators from hole doping at v = -1, -2/3, -3/5, and -4/7 (per moir\'e unit cell). In…

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

Motivated by a recent experiment reporting the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in twisted ${\rm MoTe}_2$, we investigate microscopically the prospects of realizing exotic topologically ordered states beyond conventional quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

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 long-sought Chern insulators that manifest quantum anomalous Hall effect are typically considered to occur solely in ferromagnets. Here, we theoretically predict the realizability of Chern insulators in antiferromagnets, of which the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-24 Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Qihang Liu

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) were proposed theoretically about a decade ago. These exotic states of matter are fractional quantum Hall states realized when a nearly flat Chern band is partially filled, even in the absence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ying Ran

We suggest a construction of a large class of topological states using an array of quantum wires. First, we show how to construct a Chern insulator using an array of alternating wires that contain electrons and holes, correlated with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-11 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg

The understanding of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has been deeply guided by band topology and quantum geometry. Here, we introduce a real-space theoretical framework in which FCIs are understood in terms of composite bosons, local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Guangyu Yu , Zheng Zhu

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 discoveries of fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects under zero magnetic fields in both transition metal dichalcogenide and pentalayer graphene moir\'e superlattices have aroused significant research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhongqing Guo , Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

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 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

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…

Graphene-based moire superlattices exhibit novel quantum phenomena driven by pronounced interactions, leading to topological corrected states like orbital Chern insulators exhibiting quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). Typically,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zaizhe Zhang , Xi Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

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