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 …

Anomalous Hall crystals in rhombohedral multilayer graphene. I. Interaction-driven Chern bands and fractional quantum Hall states at zero magnetic field

J Dong, T Wang, T Wang, T Soejima, MP Zaletel… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene with a substrate-induced moiré
potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional quantum Hall states at zero …

Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene

T Devakul, PJ Ledwith, LQ Xia, A Uri… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We propose magic-angle helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring
identical rotation angles between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and …

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 …

Fractional Chern insulators versus nonmagnetic states in twisted bilayer

J Yu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, M Wang, O Vafek… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analog of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Recent …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Non-Abelian fractional quantum anomalous Hall states and first Landau level physics of the second moiré band of twisted bilayer

CE Ahn, W Lee, K Yananose, Y Kim, GY Cho - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Utilizing the realistic continuum description of twisted bilayer MoTe 2 and many-body exact
diagonalization calculation, we establish that the second moiré band of twisted bilayer MoTe …

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 …