Stabilizing fractional Chern insulators via exchange interaction in moiré systems

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Main Authors: Shen, Xiaoyang, Wang, Chonghao, Guo, Ruiping, Xu, Zhiming, Duan, Wenhui, Xu, Yong
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author Shen, Xiaoyang
Wang, Chonghao
Guo, Ruiping
Xu, Zhiming
Duan, Wenhui
Xu, Yong
author_facet Shen, Xiaoyang
Wang, Chonghao
Guo, Ruiping
Xu, Zhiming
Duan, Wenhui
Xu, Yong
contents Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moiré Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated states in moiré systems. In this letter, we demonstrate that, with an additional exchange interaction induced by proximity effect, the topology and bandwidth of the moiré minibands of twisted $\mathrm{MoTe_2}$ homobilayers can be easily tuned. Fractional Chern insulators at -2/3 filling are found to appear at enlarged twist angles over a large range of twist angles with enhanced many-body gaps. We further discover a topological phase transition between the fractional Chern insulator, quantum anomalous Hall crystal, and charge density wave. Our results shed light on the interplay between topology and correlation physics.
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spellingShingle Stabilizing fractional Chern insulators via exchange interaction in moiré systems
Shen, Xiaoyang
Wang, Chonghao
Guo, Ruiping
Xu, Zhiming
Duan, Wenhui
Xu, Yong
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moiré Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated states in moiré systems. In this letter, we demonstrate that, with an additional exchange interaction induced by proximity effect, the topology and bandwidth of the moiré minibands of twisted $\mathrm{MoTe_2}$ homobilayers can be easily tuned. Fractional Chern insulators at -2/3 filling are found to appear at enlarged twist angles over a large range of twist angles with enhanced many-body gaps. We further discover a topological phase transition between the fractional Chern insulator, quantum anomalous Hall crystal, and charge density wave. Our results shed light on the interplay between topology and correlation physics.
title Stabilizing fractional Chern insulators via exchange interaction in moiré systems
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12294