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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

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number (C) enables multiple dissipationless edge channels for low-power-consumption electronics. We report the realization of multiple high-C QAH insulators including C=3,5,6, and 7 in…

Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene flakes with a substrate induced moir\'e potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional Quantum Hall states in the absence of an applied magnetic field. Surprisingly,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-15 Junkai Dong , Taige Wang , Tianle Wang , Tomohiro Soejima , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath , Daniel E. Parker

When one of the graphene layers of Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene is nearly aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate (a configuration dubbed TBG/hBN), the active electronic bands are nearly flat, and have a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Cécile Repellin , T. Senthil

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 quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is uniquely characterized by the topological Chern number C. Controlling the Chern number is a key step toward functional topological electronics and enables access to exotic quantum phases beyond…

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…

The standard theoretical framework for fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAH) assumes an isolated flat Chern band in the single particle level. In this paper we challenges this paradigm for the FQAH recently observed in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-12 Boran Zhou , Hui Yang , Ya-Hui Zhang

Remarkable recent experiments on the moir\'e structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral graphene aligned with a hexagonal Boron-Nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero field fractional quantum hall effect. These "(Fractional)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Zhihuan Dong , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

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

The experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has preceded theoretical prediction. Supported by large-scale first principles relaxation…

Recently, fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects have been discovered in two-dimensional moir\'{e} materials when a topologically nontrivial band with Chern number $\mathcal{C}=1$ is partially doped. Remarkably, superlattice Bloch bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vo Tien Phong , Cyprian Lewandowski

The isospin flavors in condensed matters can be continuously broken, forming various symmetry-broken quantum states. In moir\'e crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be effectively tuned by the twist angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Wenxuan Wang , Yijie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Zihao Huo , Gengdong Zhou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

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

Helical trilayer graphene realizes a versatile moir\'e system for exploring correlated topological states emerging from high Chern bands. Motivated by recent experimental observations of anomalous Hall effects at fractional fillings of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Sen Niu , Jason Alicea , D. N. Sheng , Yang Peng

The recent observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in moir\'e fractional Chern insulators provides an opportunity to investigate zero magnetic field anyons. To potentially realize non-Abelian anyons, one approach is to…

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 systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations. Here, we will discuss a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained graphene that reproduces several key aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Qiang Gao , Junkai Dong , Patrick Ledwith , Daniel Parker , Eslam Khalaf

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

Realizing Chern insulators with Chern numbers greater than one remains a major goal in quantum materials research. Such platforms promise multichannel dissipationless chiral transport and access to correlated phases beyond the conventional…

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