Parent Berry curvature and the ideal anomalous Hall crystal

T Tan, T Devakul - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We study a model of electrons moving in a parent band of uniform Berry curvature. At
sufficiently high parent Berry curvature, we show that strong repulsive interactions …

A microscopic perspective on moiré materials

KP Nuckolls, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and electronic
correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in moiré materials, an …

Non-Abelian fractional quantum anomalous Hall states and first Landau level physics of the second moiré band of twisted bilayer

CE Ahn, W Lee, K Yananose, Y Kim, GY Cho - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Utilizing the realistic continuum description of twisted bilayer MoTe 2 and many-body exact
diagonalization calculation, we establish that the second moiré band of twisted bilayer MoTe …

Adiabatic approximation and Aharonov-Casher bands in twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

J Shi, N Morales-Durán, E Khalaf, AH MacDonald - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Topological flat moiré bands with nearly ideal quantum geometry have been identified in
homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide moiré superlattices, and are thought to be …

Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e pentalayer graphene

D Waters, A Okounkova, R Su, B Zhou, J Yao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rapid development of moir\'e quantum matter has recently led to the remarkable
discovery of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and sparked predictions of other …

Composite helical edges from Abelian fractional topological insulators

YZ Chou, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study low-temperature phases and edge-state conductance of an interacting composite
(1+ 1/n) Abelian helical edge state made of a regular helical liquid carrying charge e and a …

Non-Abelian Fractional Chern Insulators and Competing States in Flat Moir\'e Bands

H Liu, Z Liu, EJ Bergholtz - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.08887, 2024 - arxiv.org
Breakthrough experiments have recently realized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in
moir\'e materials. However, all states observed are Abelian, the possible existence of more …

Diverse impacts of spin-orbit coupling on superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene

J Yang, X Shi, S Ye, C Yoon, Z Lu, V Kakani… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Engineering non-Abelian quasiparticles by combining superconductivity and topological
states have been proposed as a route to realize topological quantum computation …

Higher Landau-Level Analogues and Signatures of Non-Abelian States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe

C Wang, XW Zhang, X Liu, J Wang, T Cao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators at zero magnetic field in moir\'e
superlattices has sparked intense interests in bringing Landau level physics to flat Chern …

Hofstadter spectrum of Chern bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

K Kolář, K Yang, F von Oppen, C Mora - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the topological bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in an
external magnetic field. We first focus on a paradigmatic model of WSe 2, which can be …