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We study two models for spinless fermions featuring topologically non-trivial bands characterized by Chern numbers $C=\pm1$ at fractional filling. Using exact diagonalization, we show that, even for infinitely strong nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefanos Kourtis , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have attracted intensive attention for the realization of fractional quantum Hall states in the absence of an external magnetic field. Most of FCIs have been proposed on two-dimensional (2D) Euclidean…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-11 Ai-Lei He , Lu Qi , Yongjun Liu , Yi-Fei Wang

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) realized in fractional quantum Hall systems subject to a periodic potential are topological phases of matter for which space group symmetries play an important role. In particular, lattice dislocations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Christina Knapp , Eric M. Spanton , Andrea F. Young , Chetan Nayak , Michael P. Zaletel

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) typically emerge in topological flat bands and are regarded as lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states. Conventionally, the flat-band wavefunctions that support FCIs are expected to mimic the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Moru Song , Kai Chang

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…

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…

Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. These states arise from valley ferromagnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Patrick J. Ledwith , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

The rapid advances in the study of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) raise a fundamental question: while initially discovered in flat Chern bands motivated by their topological equivalence to Landau levels, is single- particle band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Hongyu Lu , Wang Yao

Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

Recent experimental advances have uncovered fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states in twisted MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) systems under zero magnetic field. Understanding the interaction effects on topological phases within realistic model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Jialin Chen , Qiaoyi Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Wei Li

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) with crystalline symmetry possess topological invariants that fundamentally have no analog in continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we demonstrate through numerical calculations on model wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analogue of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Recent experiments have demonstrated the existence of FCIs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Minxuan Wang , Oskar Vafek , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

The quantum geometry of Bloch wavefunctions,encoded in the Berry curvature and quantum metric, is believed to be a decisive ingredient in stabilizing fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect(i.e., fractional Chern insulator, FCI, at…

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

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…

Fractional Chern insulators are lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states that realize fractionalized quasiparticles without an external magnetic field. A key strategy to understand and design these phases is to map Chern bands onto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohao Li , Yunze Ouyang , Fengcheng Wu

The quantum metric of single-particle wave functions in topological flatbands plays a crucial role in determining the stability of fractional Chern insulating (FCI) states. Here, we unravel that the quantum metric causes the many-body Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-13 Ang-Kun Wu , Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Moir\'e materials provide a remarkably tunable platform for topological and strongly correlated quantum phases of matter. Very recently, the first zero field Abelian fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have been experimentally demonstrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-26 Hui Liu , Raul Perea-Causin , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topological flat bands play an essential role in inducing exotic interacting physics, ranging from fractional Chern insulators to superconductivity, in moir\'e materials. In this work, we propose a design principle for realizing topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yunzhe Liu , Anoj Aryal , Kaijie Yang , Dumitru Calugaru , Zhenyao Fang , Haoyu Hu , Qimin Yan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Chao-xing Liu