Fractional Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer

C Wang, XW Zhang, X Liu, Y He, X Xu, Y Ran, T Cao… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe 2 moiré superlattices [J. Cai, Signatures of …

Evidence of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

K Kang, B Shen, Y Qiu, Y Zeng, Z Xia, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a
bulk band gap similar to an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization-driven band topology evolution in twisted MoTe2 and WSe2

XW Zhang, C Wang, X Liu, Y Fan, T Cao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Motivated by recent experimental observations of opposite Chern numbers in R-type twisted
MoTe2 and WSe2 homobilayers, we perform large-scale density-functional-theory …

Contrasting twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides for fractional Chern insulators: An emergent gauge picture

H Li, Y Su, YB Kim, HY Kee, K Sun, SZ Lin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The recent experimental discovery of the zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) in twisted
MoTe 2 moiré superlattices has sparked immense interest in this exotic topological quantum …

Moiré fractional Chern insulators. II. First-principles calculations and continuum models of rhombohedral graphene superlattices

J Herzog-Arbeitman, Y Wang, J Liu, PM Tam, Z Qi… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral pentalayer
graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has preceded theoretical prediction …

Moir\'e Fractional Chern Insulators III: Hartree-Fock Phase Diagram, Magic Angle Regime for Chern Insulator States, the Role of the Moir\'e Potential and Goldstone …

YH Kwan, J Yu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, DK Efetov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate in detail the $\nu=+ 1$ displacement-field-tuned interacting phase diagram of
$ L= 3, 4, 5, 6, 7$ layer rhombohedral graphene aligned to hBN (R $ L $ G/hBN). Our …

Higher vortexability: zero field realization of higher Landau levels

M Fujimoto, DE Parker, J Dong, E Khalaf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rise of moir\'{e} materials has led to experimental realizations of integer and fractional
Chern insulators in small or vanishing magnetic fields. At the same time, a set of minimal …

Bridging the small and large in twisted transition metal dicalcogenide homobilayers: a tight binding model capturing orbital interference and topology across a wide …

V Crépel, A Millis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15546, 2024 - arxiv.org
Many of the important phases observed in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide
homobilayers are driven by short-range interactions, which should be captured by a local …

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 …

Direct magnetic imaging of fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe with a superconducting sensor

E Redekop, C Zhang, H Park, J Cai, E Anderson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the absence of time reversal symmetry, orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of
topology and interactions, with particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators where …