Fractional Chern insulator edges: crystalline effects and optical measurements

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Yan-Qi, Motruk, Johannes, Grankin, Andrey, Hafezi, Mohammad
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author Wang, Yan-Qi
Motruk, Johannes
Grankin, Andrey
Hafezi, Mohammad
author_facet Wang, Yan-Qi
Motruk, Johannes
Grankin, Andrey
Hafezi, Mohammad
contents Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated by recent bulk observations of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in two-dimensional materials and by synthetic realizations in ultracold atoms, we revisit this framework and quantify deviations from the hydrodynamic limit due to lattice effects. Using a combination of analytical arguments and numerical simulations, we disentangle universal from nonuniversal edge properties. We outline experimental probes in excitonic FCIs and in ultracold atom systems, and in particular propose time-resolved edge spectroscopy to directly access the predicted exponents and velocities.
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spellingShingle Fractional Chern insulator edges: crystalline effects and optical measurements
Wang, Yan-Qi
Motruk, Johannes
Grankin, Andrey
Hafezi, Mohammad
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated by recent bulk observations of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in two-dimensional materials and by synthetic realizations in ultracold atoms, we revisit this framework and quantify deviations from the hydrodynamic limit due to lattice effects. Using a combination of analytical arguments and numerical simulations, we disentangle universal from nonuniversal edge properties. We outline experimental probes in excitonic FCIs and in ultracold atom systems, and in particular propose time-resolved edge spectroscopy to directly access the predicted exponents and velocities.
title Fractional Chern insulator edges: crystalline effects and optical measurements
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17494