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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

A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ moir\'e superlattices [Nature 622, 63-68 (2023)]. The experimental observation is at an unexpected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Chong Wang , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yuchi He , Xiaodong Xu , Ying Ran , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

The realization of interacting topological states of matter such as fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in cold atom systems has recently come within experimental reach due to the engineering of optical lattices with synthetic gauge fields…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-03 Johannes Motruk , Ilyoun Na

Recently, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), also called fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, have been theoretically established in lattice systems with topological flat bands. These systems exhibit similar fractionalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

The recent theoretical discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has provided an important new way to realize topologically ordered states in lattice models. In earlier works, on-site and nearest neighbor Hubbard-like interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-05 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Eliot Kapit

We provide a detailed study of Abelian quasiparticles of valley polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) residing in the top valence band of twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) at hole filling $\nu_h=2/3$. We construct a tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhao Liu , Bohao Li , Yuhao Shi , Fengcheng Wu

It is commonly believed that nonuniform Berry curvature destroys the Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman algebra and as a consequence destabilizes fractional Chern insulators. In this work we disprove this common lore by presenting a theory for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jie Wang , Semyon Klevtsov , Zhao Liu

We discuss the low-energy limit of three-orbital Kondo-lattice and Hubbard models describing $t_{2g}$ orbitals on a triangular lattice near half-filling. We analyze how very flat bands with non-trivial topological character, a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Stefanos Kourtis , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Maria Daghofer

Breakthrough experiments have recently realized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials. However, all states observed are Abelian, the possible existence of more exotic non-Abelian FCIs remains controversial both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Hui Liu , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

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

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

The search for candidate materials for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has mainly focused on the topological and geometrical structures of single-particle Chern bands. However, there are inherent limitations in approaches that neglect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

Ideal Chern insulating phases arise in two-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. They are characterized by having nearly-flat bands, and a uniform quantum geometry -- which combines the Berry curvature and quantum metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Christian Northe , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jonathan Sturm , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

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

Electronic topological phases of matter, characterized by robust boundary states derived from topologically nontrivial bulk states, are pivotal for next-generation electronic devices. However, understanding their complex quantum phases,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Xiang Li , Yixiao Chen , Bohao Li , Haoxiang Chen , Fengcheng Wu , Ji Chen , Weiluo Ren

Moir\'e materials have emerged as a powerful platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. While recent experiments have unveiled fractional Chern insulators exhibiting the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect based on electrons or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

Lattice generalizations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, called fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), have been extensively investigated in strongly correlated systems. Despite many efforts, previous studies have not revealed all of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-28 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

Fractional Chern insulators realize the remarkable physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in crystalline systems with Chern bands. The lowest Landau level (LLL) is known to host the FQHE, but not all Chern bands are suitable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-22 Patrick J. Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath , Daniel E. Parker

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 possibility of realizing lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, so-called fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), in nearly flat topological (Chern) bands has attracted a lot of recent interest. Here, we make the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-16 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz