Stability of fractional Chern insulators with a non-Landau level continuum limit

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Main Authors: Andrews, Bartholomew, Raja, Mathi, Mishra, Nimit, Zaletel, Michael P., Roy, Rahul
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Published: 2023
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author Andrews, Bartholomew
Raja, Mathi
Mishra, Nimit
Zaletel, Michael P.
Roy, Rahul
author_facet Andrews, Bartholomew
Raja, Mathi
Mishra, Nimit
Zaletel, Michael P.
Roy, Rahul
contents The stability of fractional Chern insulators is widely believed to be predicted by the resemblance of their single-particle spectra to Landau levels. We investigate the scope of this geometric stability hypothesis by analyzing the stability of a set of fractional Chern insulators that explicitly do not have a Landau level continuum limit. By computing the many-body spectra of Laughlin states in a generalized Hofstadter model, we analyze the relationship between single-particle metrics, such as trace inequality saturation, and many-body metrics, such as the magnitude of the many-body and entanglement gaps. We show numerically that the geometric stability hypothesis holds for Chern bands that are not continuously connected to Landau levels, as well as conventional Chern bands, albeit often requiring larger system sizes to converge for these configurations.
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spellingShingle Stability of fractional Chern insulators with a non-Landau level continuum limit
Andrews, Bartholomew
Raja, Mathi
Mishra, Nimit
Zaletel, Michael P.
Roy, Rahul
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
The stability of fractional Chern insulators is widely believed to be predicted by the resemblance of their single-particle spectra to Landau levels. We investigate the scope of this geometric stability hypothesis by analyzing the stability of a set of fractional Chern insulators that explicitly do not have a Landau level continuum limit. By computing the many-body spectra of Laughlin states in a generalized Hofstadter model, we analyze the relationship between single-particle metrics, such as trace inequality saturation, and many-body metrics, such as the magnitude of the many-body and entanglement gaps. We show numerically that the geometric stability hypothesis holds for Chern bands that are not continuously connected to Landau levels, as well as conventional Chern bands, albeit often requiring larger system sizes to converge for these configurations.
title Stability of fractional Chern insulators with a non-Landau level continuum limit
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05758