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 …

Electronic properties of graphene in a strong magnetic field

MO Goerbig - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
The basic aspects of electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite) exposed to a strong
perpendicular magnetic field are reviewed. One of its most salient features is the relativistic …

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem

ZD Song, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly
contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM …

Vortexability: A unifying criterion for ideal fractional Chern insulators

PJ Ledwith, A Vishwanath, DE Parker - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Fractional Chern insulators realize the remarkable physics of the fractional quantum Hall
effect (FQHE) in crystalline systems with Chern bands. The lowest Landau level (LLL) is …

Direct observation of a magnetic-field-induced Wigner crystal

YC Tsui, M He, Y Hu, E Lake, T Wang, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Wigner predicted that when the Coulomb interactions between electrons become much
stronger than their kinetic energy, electrons crystallize into a closely packed lattice. A variety …

Fundamental bound on topological gap

Y Onishi, L Fu - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We provide a universal tight bound on the energy gap of topological insulators by exploring
relationships between topology, quantum geometry, and optical absorption. Applications of …

Fractional Chern insulator states in twisted bilayer graphene: An analytical approach

PJ Ledwith, G Tarnopolsky, E Khalaf… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed
spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron …

Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization …

S Moudgalya, N Regnault, BA Bernevig - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We obtain multiple exact results on the entanglement of the exact excited states of
nonintegrable models we introduced in Phys. Rev. B 98, 235155 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevB …

Ginzburg-Landau theory of flat-band superconductors with quantum metric

SA Chen, KT Law - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Recent experimental studies unveiled highly unconventional phenomena in the
superconducting twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with ultraflat bands, which cannot be …

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 …