Composite Fermi Liquid at Zero Magnetic Field in Twisted

J Dong, J Wang, PJ Ledwith, A Vishwanath… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The pursuit of exotic phases of matter outside of the extreme conditions of a quantizing
magnetic field is a long-standing quest of solid state physics. Recent experiments have …

Exact landau level description of geometry and interaction in a flatband

J Wang, J Cano, AJ Millis, Z Liu, B Yang - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Flatbands appear in many condensed matter systems, including the two-dimensional
electron gas in a high magnetic field, correlated materials, and moiré heterostructures. They …

Hierarchy of ideal flatbands in chiral twisted multilayer graphene models

J Wang, Z Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We propose models of twisted multilayer graphene that exhibit exactly flat Bloch bands with
arbitrary Chern numbers and ideal band geometries. The models are constructed by twisting …

Chiral approximation to twisted bilayer graphene: Exact intravalley inversion symmetry, nodal structure, and implications for higher magic angles

J Wang, Y Zheng, AJ Millis, J Cano - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
This paper presents a mathematical and numerical analysis of the flat-band wave functions
occurring in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene at the “magic” twist angles. We …

Designing topology and fractionalization in narrow gap semiconductor films via electrostatic engineering

T Tan, AP Reddy, L Fu, T Devakul - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We show that topological flat minibands can be engineered in a class of narrow gap
semiconductor films using only an external electrostatic superlattice potential. We …

Trion sensing of a zero-field composite Fermi liquid

E Anderson, J Cai, AP Reddy, H Park, W Holtzmann… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The half-filled lowest Landau level is a fascinating platform for researching interacting
topological phases. A celebrated example is the composite Fermi liquid, a non-Fermi liquid …

Theory of the disordered quantum thermal Hall state: Emergent symmetry and phase diagram

B Lian, J Wang - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) system at Landau level filling fraction ν= 5/2 has long been
suggested to be non-Abelian, either Pfaffian (Pf) or antiPfaffian (APf) states by numerical …

Topological invariants for interacting systems: From twisted boundary conditions to center-of-mass momentum

L Lin, Y Ke, C Lee - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Beyond the well-known topological band theory for single-particle systems, it is a great
challenge to characterize the topological nature of interacting multiparticle quantum …

Stability of the particle-hole Pfaffian state and the -fractional quantum Hall effect

EH Rezayi, K Pakrouski, FDM Haldane - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We present a method for the exact construction of the fully particle-hole symmetric Pfaffian
(PH-Pfaffian) ground state and its charged excitations on a sphere. We adopt the Moore …

Dirac electron under periodic magnetic field: Platform for fractional Chern insulator and generalized Wigner crystal

J Dong, J Wang, L Fu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.10516, 2022 - arxiv.org
We propose a platform for flat Chern band by subjecting two-dimensional Dirac materials--
such as graphene and topological insulator thin films--to a periodic magnetic field, which …