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Combined topological and Landau order from strong correlations in Chern bands
Stefanos Kourtis1, Maria Daghofer1
1Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, 01171 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
We present a class of states with both topological and conventional Landau order that arise out of strongly interacting spinless fermions in fractionally filled and topologically nontrivial bands with Chern number C=±1. These quantum states show the features of fractional Chern insulators, such as fractional Hall conductivity and interchange of ground-state levels upon insertion of a magnetic flux. In addition, they exhibit charge order and a related additional trivial ground-state degeneracy. Band mixing and geometric frustration of the charge pattern place these lattice states markedly beyond a single-band description.
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