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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

Recent experiments on multilayer graphene materials have discovered a plethora of correlated phases, including ferromagnetism and superconductivity, in the absence of a moir\'{e} potential. These findings pose an intriguing question of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-14 Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Dohun Kim , Gyeoul Lee , Nicolas Leconte , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jeil Jung , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Since the discovery of superconductive twisted bilayer graphene which initiated the field of twistronics, moir\'e systems have not ceased to exhibit fascinating properties. We demonstrate that in boron nitride twisted bilayers, for a given…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-29 Sylvain Latil , Hakim Amara , Lorenzo Sponza

Determining the symmetry breaking order of correlated quantum phases is essential for understanding the microscopic interactions in their host systems. The flat bands in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) provide an especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jesse C. Hoke , Yifan Li , Julian May-Mann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Barry Bradlyn , Taylor L. Hughes , Benjamin E. Feldman

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice analogues of fractional quantum Hall states that may provide a new avenue toward manipulating non-abelian excitations. Early theoretical studies have predicted their existence in systems with…

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

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoTe$_2$, provide a versatile platform for exploring correlated topological phases. This work investigates the interplay of perpendicular magnetic and electric fields in tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Tianhong Lu , Yi-Ming Wu , Luiz H. Santos

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

The discovery of zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials has attracted intense interest in the interplay between topology and correlations. Here, we demonstrate that fractionalized topological order can emerge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Hui Liu , Raul Perea-Causin , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) is a fascinating emergent quantum state characterized by fractionally charged excitations in the absence of magnetic field,which could arise from the intricate interplay between electron…

We study the many-body physics in twisted bilayer graphene coupled to periodic driving of a circularly polarized light when electron-electron interactions are taken into account. In the limit of high driving frequency $\Omega$, we use…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Peng-Sheng Hu , Yi-Han Zhou , Zhao Liu

Twisted double- and mono-bilayer graphene are graphene-based moir\'e materials hosting strongly correlated fermions in a gate-tunable conduction band with a topologically non-trivial character. Using unbiased exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-22 Patrick H. Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Mathias S. Scheurer , Andreas M. Läuchli

In recent years, correlated insulating states, unconventional superconductivity, and topologically non-trivial phases have all been observed in several moir\'e heterostructures. However, understanding of the physical mechanisms behind these…

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

Moir\'e superlattices engineer band properties and enable observation of fractal energy spectra of Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, correlated-electron physics hosted by flat bands in small-angle moir\'e systems has been at the foreground.…

Inducing superconducting correlations in chiral edge states is predicted to generate topologically protected zero energy modes with exotic quantum statistics. Experimental efforts to date have focused on engineering interfaces between…

Multilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) has recently emerged as a new, structurally simple flat-band system, which facilitates the exploration of interaction-driven correlation states with highly ordered electron arrangements. Despite a…

Encapsulating graphene in hexagonal Boron Nitride has several advantages: the highest mobilities reported to date are achieved in this way, and precise nanostructuring of graphene becomes feasible through the protective hBN layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yongping Du , Ning Xu , Xianqing Lin , Antti-Pekka Jauho

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen