Moiré fractional Chern insulators. I. First-principles calculations and continuum models of twisted bilayer

Y Jia, J Yu, J Liu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, Z Qi, H Pi… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments observed fractional Chern insulators (FCI) in twisted bilayer MoTe 2 at
zero magnetic field, yet even the single-particle model of this material is controversial …

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 …

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral multilayer graphene in the moiréless limit

B Zhou, H Yang, YH Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The standard theoretical framework for fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect
assumes an isolated flat Chern band in the single particle level. In this Letter, we challenge …

Extended quantum anomalous Hall effect in moiré structures: Phase transitions and transport

AS Patri, Z Dong, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments on multilayer rhombohedral graphene have unearthed a number of
interesting phenomena in the regime where integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall …

Non-Abelian and Abelian descendants of a vortex spin liquid: Fractional quantum spin Hall effect in twisted

YH Zhang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The recent experimental observation of a potentially fractional quantum spin Hall (FQSH)
state in the twisted MoTe 2 system has sparked theoretical explorations at total filling ν T= 1 …

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 …

Attractive Haldane bilayers for trap** non-Abelian anyons

V Crépel, N Regnault - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the interplay between intrinsic topological order and superconductivity in a two-
component Haldane bilayer, where the two layers are coupled by an attractive force. We …

From fractional quantum anomalous Hall smectics to polar smectic metals: nontrivial interplay between electronic liquid crystal order and topological order in …

H Lu, HQ Wu, BB Chen, K Sun… - Reports on Progress in …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Symmetry-breaking orders can not only compete with each other, but also be intertwined,
and the intertwined topological and symmetry-breaking orders make the situation more …

Moore-Read state in half-filled moiré Chern band from three-body pseudopotential

L Zhang, XY Song - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The moiré system provides a tunable platform for exploring exotic phases of materials. This
article shows the possible realization of a non-Abelian state characterized by the Moore …

Corner charge fluctuations and many-body quantum geometry

XC Wu, KL Cai, M Cheng, P Kumar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.16057, 2024 - arxiv.org
In many-body systems with U (1) global symmetry, the charge fluctuations in a subregion
reveal important insights into entanglement and other global properties. For subregions with …