Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moiré Fractional Chern Insulators
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| author | Gonçalves, Miguel Mendez-Valderrama, Juan Felipe Herzog-Arbeitman, Jonah Yu, Jiabin Xu, Xiaodong Xiao, Di Bernevig, B. Andrei Regnault, Nicolas |
| author_facet | Gonçalves, Miguel Mendez-Valderrama, Juan Felipe Herzog-Arbeitman, Jonah Yu, Jiabin Xu, Xiaodong Xiao, Di Bernevig, B. Andrei Regnault, Nicolas |
| contents | Fractionally charged elementary excitations, the quasi-electron and quasi-hole, are one of the hallmarks of the fractional Chern insulator (FCI). In this work, we observe that spontaneous spin polarization in twisted MoTe$_2$ leads to multiple species of low-energy quasi-particles distinguished by their spin quantum numbers. We perform large-scale exact diagonalization (ED) calculations to investigate the nature of these excitations and develop a method to extract their fundamental energetic properties. Focusing on $θ= 3.7^{\circ}$ and filling factor $ν= -2/3$ relevant to recent experiments, we show that spin-preserving (spinless) charge excitations have smaller gap than spin-flipping (spinful) excitations both with and without band mixing. This result is in qualitative agreement with the measured magnetic field dependence of the transport gaps. Beyond the spinless and spinful quasi-particle gaps, we extract the full quasi-electron and quasi-hole ``band structure'' and find significant dispersion with emergent magnetic translation symmetry -- a fundamental departure from the immobile excitations of the quantum Hall fluid. Our results establish a framework for computing the properties of novel elementary excitations in FCIs. |
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| spellingShingle | Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moiré Fractional Chern Insulators Gonçalves, Miguel Mendez-Valderrama, Juan Felipe Herzog-Arbeitman, Jonah Yu, Jiabin Xu, Xiaodong Xiao, Di Bernevig, B. Andrei Regnault, Nicolas Strongly Correlated Electrons Fractionally charged elementary excitations, the quasi-electron and quasi-hole, are one of the hallmarks of the fractional Chern insulator (FCI). In this work, we observe that spontaneous spin polarization in twisted MoTe$_2$ leads to multiple species of low-energy quasi-particles distinguished by their spin quantum numbers. We perform large-scale exact diagonalization (ED) calculations to investigate the nature of these excitations and develop a method to extract their fundamental energetic properties. Focusing on $θ= 3.7^{\circ}$ and filling factor $ν= -2/3$ relevant to recent experiments, we show that spin-preserving (spinless) charge excitations have smaller gap than spin-flipping (spinful) excitations both with and without band mixing. This result is in qualitative agreement with the measured magnetic field dependence of the transport gaps. Beyond the spinless and spinful quasi-particle gaps, we extract the full quasi-electron and quasi-hole ``band structure'' and find significant dispersion with emergent magnetic translation symmetry -- a fundamental departure from the immobile excitations of the quantum Hall fluid. Our results establish a framework for computing the properties of novel elementary excitations in FCIs. |
| title | Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moiré Fractional Chern Insulators |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05330 |