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Multiple Chern Bands in Twisted MoTe_{2} and Possible Non-Abelian States
Cheng Xu1,2, Ning Mao3, Tiansheng Zeng4
1University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
Abstract:
We investigate the moiré band structures and a possible even-denominator fractional quantum Hall state in small angle twisted bilayer MoTe_{2}, using combined large-scale local basis density functional theory calculation and continuum model exact diagonalization. Via large-scale first-principles calculations at θ=1.89°, we find a sequence of C=1 (Chern number in the K valley) moiré Chern bands in analogy to Landau levels. By constructing the continuum model with multiple Chern bands, we undertake a band-projected exact diagonalization using an unscreened Coulomb repulsion to identify possible non-Abelian states near twist angle θ=1.89° at the half filling of second moiré band.
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