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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

A non-Hermitian Chern insulator with gain/loss-type non-Hermiticity shows a peculiar gap closing; when a nontrivial Chern insulator phase changes to a gapless phase, conduction and valence bands are combined into one band owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yositake Takane

In contrast to the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect, where electron density fixes the applied magnetic field, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) can realize FQH states in comparatively weak or even zero magnetic fields. Previous…

We present a concrete example of fractional Chern insulator whose fermion Hamiltonian consists of hopping and Coulomb repulsive interaction terms. Both of them are of finite range on the square lattice. In a strong coupling limit for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Tohru Koma

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 search for fractional quantized Hall phases in the absence of a magnetic field has primarily targeted flat-band systems that mimic the features of a Landau level. In an alternative approach, the fractional excitonic insulator (FEI) has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-31 Steven Gassner , Ady Stern , C. L. Kane

We investigate an interaction-driven transition between crystalline and liquid states of strongly correlated spinless fermions within topological flat bands at low density (with filling factors $\nu=1/5$, $1/7$, $1/9$). Using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-10 Michał Kupczyński , Błażej Jaworowski , Arkadiusz Wójs

We report on the numerically exact simulation of the dissipative dynamics governed by quantum master equations that feature fractional quantum Hall states as unique steady states. In particular, for the paradigmatic Hofstadter model, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-19 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states or fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states have been studied on two-dimensional (2D) flat lattices with different boundary conditions. Here, we propose the geometry-dependent FCI/FQAH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

Two-dimensional lattice models subjected to an external effective magnetic field can form nontrivial band topologies characterized by nonzero integer band Chern numbers. In this Letter, we investigate such a lattice model originating from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-01 Dong Wang , Zhao Liu , Junpeng Cao , Heng Fan

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

Recently, it has been shown how topological phases of matter with crystalline symmetry and $U(1)$ charge conservation can be partially characterized by a set of many-body invariants, the discrete shift $\mathscr{S}_{\text{o}}$ and electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

The Harper-Hofstadter model provides a fractal spectrum containing topological bands of any integer Chern number, $C$. We study the many-body physics that is realized by interacting particles occupying Harper-Hofstadter bands with $|C|>1$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-28 Gunnar Möller , Nigel R. Cooper

We study the phase diagram of interacting electrons in a dispersionless Chern band as a function of their filling. We find hierarchy multiplets of incompressible states at fillings \nu=1/3, 2/5, 3/7, 4/9, 5/9, 4/7, 3/5 as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-10 A. M. Läuchli , Z. Liu , E. J. Bergholtz , R. Moessner

The stability of $\nu=1/3$ Fractional Chern Insulator (FCI) phase is analysed on the example of checkerboard lattice undergoing a transition into Lieb lattice. The transition is performed by the addition of a second sublattice, whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-08 Błażej Jaworowski , Paweł Potasz , Andrei Manolescu

We study a generic model of a Chern insulator supplemented by a Hubbard interaction in arbitrary even dimension $D$ and demonstrate that the model remains well-defined and nontrivial in the $D \to \infty$ limit. Dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 David Krüger , Michael Potthoff

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) -- the lattice analog of fractional quantum Hall states -- form as fractionalized quasiparticles emerge in a partially-filled Chern band. This fractionalization is driven by the interplay of electronic…

We develop a first quantization description of fractional Chern insulators that is the dual of the conventional fractional quantum Hall (FQH) problem, with the roles of position and momentum interchanged. In this picture, FQH states are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Claassen , Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale , Xiao-Liang Qi , Thomas P. Devereaux

Topologically ordered phases are characterized by long-range quantum entanglement and fractional statistics rather than by symmetry breaking. First observed in a fractionally filled continuum Landau level, topological order has since been…

Chern insulators are periodic band insulators with the property that their projector onto the occupied bands have non-zero Chern number. Chern insulator with a homogeneous boundary display continuum spectrum that fills the entire insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-24 Emil Prodan