Interacting topological insulators: a review

S Rachel - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators more than a decade
ago has revolutionized modern condensed matter physics. Today, the field of topological …

Topological flat band models and fractional Chern insulators

EJ Bergholtz, Z Liu - International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2013 - World Scientific
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 …

Tunable correlated Chern insulator and ferromagnetism in a moiré superlattice

G Chen, AL Sharpe, EJ Fox, YH Zhang, S Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Studies of two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field revealed the
quantum Hall effect, a topological state of matter featuring a finite Chern number C and …

Nearly flat Chern bands in moiré superlattices

YH Zhang, D Mao, Y Cao, P Jarillo-Herrero, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter
physics. Here, we propose graphene-based systems where both the band topology and …

Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene

T Devakul, PJ Ledwith, LQ **a, A Uri… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We propose magic-angle helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring
identical rotation angles between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and …

Twisted bilayer graphene. VI. An exact diagonalization study at nonzero integer filling

F **e, A Cowsik, ZD Song, B Lian, BA Bernevig… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Using exact diagonalization, we study the projected Hamiltonian with the Coulomb
interaction in the eight flat bands of first magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Employing …

Fractional Chern insulators versus nonmagnetic states in twisted bilayer

J Yu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, M Wang, O Vafek… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analog of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Recent …

Topological nature of the superconductor

Z Wang, P Zhang, G Xu, LK Zeng, H Miao, X Xu, T Qian… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We demonstrate, using first-principles calculations, that the electronic structure of FeSe 1− x
Te x (x= 0.5) is topologically nontrivial and characterized by an odd Z 2 invariant and Dirac …

Topological and stacked flat bands in bilayer graphene with a superlattice potential

SAA Ghorashi, A Dunbrack, A Abouelkomsan, J Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a
highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two …

Bosonic condensation and disorder-induced localization in a flat band

F Baboux, L Ge, T Jacqmin, M Biondi, E Galopin… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report on the engineering of a nondispersive (flat) energy band in a geometrically
frustrated lattice of micropillar optical cavities. By taking advantage of the non-Hermitian …