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 …

Zero-field composite Fermi liquid in twisted semiconductor bilayers

H Goldman, AP Reddy, N Paul, L Fu - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Recent experiments have produced evidence for fractional quantum anomalous Hall
(FQAH) states at zero magnetic field in the semiconductor moiré superlattice system t MoTe …

Pressure-enhanced fractional Chern insulators along a magic line in moiré transition metal dichalcogenides

N Morales-Durán, J Wang, GR Schleder, M Angeli… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We show that pressure applied to twisted WSe 2 can enhance the many-body gap and
region of stability of a fractional Chern insulator at filling ν= 1/3. Our results are based on …

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 …

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 …

Untwisting moiré physics: Almost ideal bands and fractional Chern insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene

Q Gao, J Dong, P Ledwith, D Parker, E Khalaf - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Moiré systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations.
Here, we will propose a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained …

Origin of model fractional Chern insulators in all topological ideal flatbands: Explicit color-entangled wave function and exact density algebra

J Wang, S Klevtsov, Z Liu - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
It is commonly believed that nonuniform Berry curvature destroys the Girvin-MacDonald-
Platzman algebra and as a consequence destabilizes fractional Chern insulators. In this …

Ideal Chern bands as Landau levels in curved space

B Estienne, N Regnault, V Crépel - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We prove that all the criteria proposed in the literature to identify a Chern band hosting exact
fractional Chern insulating ground states, in fact, describe an equivalence with a lowest …

Fractional Chern Insulators vs. Non-Magnetic States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe

J Yu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, M Wang, O Vafek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analogue of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Recent …

Nearly flat Chern band in periodically strained monolayer and bilayer graphene

X Wan, S Sarkar, K Sun, SZ Lin - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The flat band is a key ingredient for the realization of interesting quantum states for
functionalities. In this paper, we investigate the conditions for the flat band in both monolayer …