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We construct a two-band lattice model whose bands can carry the Chern numbers C=0,pm1,pm2. By means of numerical exact diagonalization, we show that the most favorable situation that selects fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-26 Adolfo G. Grushin , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

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

We present a scheme to perform an iterative variational optimization with infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS), a tensor network ansatz for a two-dimensional wave function in the thermodynamic limit, to compute the ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-02 Philippe Corboz

The experimental realization of the Harper-Hofstadter model in ultra-cold atomic gases has placed fractional states of matter in these systems within reach---a fractional Chern insulator state (FCI) is expected to emerge for sufficiently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-13 Xiao-Yu Dong , Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Motruk , Frank Pollmann

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in ideal flat bands with Chern number $C$ are commonly understood as color-entangled states constructed from $C$ copies of the lowest Landau level. In realistic moir\'e systems, however, the band geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Moru Song , Kai Chang

We propose an improved approach to carry out the imaginary time evolution of infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS), especially for systems with criticality. A cyclic optimal truncation is introduced to update the tensors along a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 Yi Zheng , Shuo Yang

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

We investigate the topological character of lattice chiral Gaussian fermionic states in two dimensions possessing the simplest descriptions in terms of projected entangled-pair states (PEPS). They are ground states of two different kinds of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-24 Thorsten B. Wahl , Stefan T. Haßler , Hong-Hao Tu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Norbert Schuch

We investigate the physics of projected d-wave pairing states using their fermionic projected entangled pair state (fPEPS) representation. First, we approximate a d-wave Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer state using the Gaussian fPEPS. Next, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-28 Qi Yang , Xing-Yu Zhang , Hai-Jun Liao , Hong-Hao Tu , Lei Wang

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

Protected chiral edge modes are a well-known signature of topologically ordered phases like the Fractional Quantum Hall States. Recently, using the framework of projected entangled pair states (PEPS) on the square lattice, we constructed a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-20 Didier Poilblanc , Norbert Schuch , Ian Affleck

Most fractional quantum Hall states have been traditionally identified within a single energy band, such as the lowest Landau level or topological flat band. As more particles are introduced, they inevitably populate higher energy bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Licheng Wang , Dong-Hao Guan , Ai-Lei He , Shun-Li Yu , Yuan Zhou

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

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

We investigate the problem of intertwined orders in fractional Chern insulators by considering lattice fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states arising from pairing of composite fermions in the square-lattice Hofstadter model. At certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Ramanjit Sohal , Eduardo Fradkin

We investigate topological phase transitions in Chern insulators within three-band models, focusing on the empty band and lowest band populated by spinless fermions. We consider Lieb and kagome lattices and notice phase transitions driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-19 P. Potasz , B. Jaworowski , M. Kupczyński , M. Brzezińska , P. Kaczmarkiewicz , A. Wójs

Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) provide exact representations for many non-chiral topologically ordered states whereas their range of applicability to interacting chiral topological phases remains largely unsettled. In this context,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-06 Anna Hackenbroich , Antoine Sterdyniak , Norbert Schuch

Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) are a class of quantum many-body states that generalize Matrix Product States for one-dimensional systems to higher dimensions. In recent years, PEPS have advanced understanding of strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-13 Siddhartha Patra , Sukhbinder Singh , Román Orús

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice generalizations of the conventional fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases. They typically arise in a 2D lattice without time-reversal symmetry when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz