Kekulé spiral order at all nonzero integer fillings in twisted bilayer graphene

YH Kwan, G Wagner, T Soejima, MP Zaletel, SH Simon… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We study magic angle graphene in the presence of both strain and particle-hole symmetry
breaking due to nonlocal interlayer tunneling. We perform a self-consistent Hartree-Fock …

Skyrmions in twisted bilayer graphene: stability, pairing, and crystallization

YH Kwan, G Wagner, N Bultinck, SH Simon… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We study the excitations that emerge upon doping the translationally invariant correlated
insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene at various integer filling factors ν …

Exciton band topology in spontaneous quantum anomalous hall insulators: Applications to twisted bilayer graphene

YH Kwan, Y Hu, SH Simon, SA Parameswaran - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We uncover topological features of neutral particle-hole pair excitations of correlated
quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators whose approximately flat conduction and …

Topological lattice models with constant Berry curvature

D Varjas, A Abouelkomsan, K Yang, E Bergholtz - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
Band geometry plays a substantial role in topological lattice models. The Berry curvature,
which resembles the effect of magnetic field in reciprocal space, usually fluctuates …

Gate-tunable fractional Chern insulators in twisted double bilayer graphene

Z Liu, A Abouelkomsan, EJ Bergholtz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We predict twisted double bilayer graphene to be a versatile platform for the realization of
fractional Chern insulators readily targeted by tuning the gate potential and the twist angle …

Halperin States of Particles and Holes in Ideal Time Reversal Invariant Pairs of Chern Bands and The Fractional Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Moir\'e MoTe

IS Villadiego - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12185, 2024 - arxiv.org
An experiment in moir\'e MoTe $ _2 $ bilayers reported the first observation of a
topologically ordered state with zero Hall conductivity and half of the edge conductance of a …

Quantum-metric-enabled exciton condensate in double twisted bilayer graphene

X Hu, T Hyart, DI Pikulin, E Rossi - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Flat-band systems are a promising platform for realizing exotic collective ground states with
spontaneously broken symmetry because the electron-electron interactions dominate over …

Domain wall competition in the Chern insulating regime of twisted bilayer graphene

YH Kwan, G Wagner, N Chakraborty, SH Simon… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We consider magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene at filling ν=+ 3, where experiments have
observed a robust quantized anomalous Hall effect. This has been attributed to the formation …

DMRG study of strongly interacting flatbands: a toy model inspired by twisted bilayer graphene

PM Eugenio, C Dag - SciPost Physics Core, 2020 - scipost.org
Strong interactions between electrons occupying bands of opposite (or like) topological
quantum numbers (Chern $=\pm1 $), and with flat dispersion, are studied by using lowest …

Continuous phase transitions between fractional quantum Hall states and symmetry-protected topological states

YH Wu, HH Tu, M Cheng - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study quantum phase transitions in Bose-Fermi mixtures driven by interspecies
interaction in the quantum Hall regime. In the absence of such an interaction, the bosons …