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October 2, 20250 citationsOpen Access

Extended Fractional Chern Insulators Near Half Flux in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Above the Magic Angle

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JFJoe FinneyASAaron L. SharpeLRLinsey K. Rodenbach

Key Points

  • Strongly-correlated phases arise in twisted bilayer graphene at specific magnetic flux conditions, revealing rich electronic behavior.
  • Quantized odd-denominator states appear across various Hofstadter subbands, demonstrating unique electronic interactions.
  • Electronic bandwidth alters correlated states as twist angle varies beyond thresholds, implying strong twist influence.
  • Landau minifan behavior suggests intriguing parallels with magic-angle samples at low magnetic fields.

Abstract

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) -- the lattice analog of fractional quantum Hall states -- form as fractionalized quasiparticles emerge in a partially-filled Chern band. This fractionalization is driven by the interplay of electronic interaction and quantum geometry of the underlying wavefunctions. Bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist near the magic angle of 1. 1\ hosts diverse correlated electronic states at zero magnetic field. When the twist angle exceeds 1. 3, the electronic bandwidth is sufficient to suppress the zero-field correlated states. Yet applying a magnetic field can restore the importance of electron-electron interactions. Here, we report strongly-correlated phases when a 1. 37\ twisted bilayer graphene sample is tuned to near half a magnetic flux quantum per moiré cell, deep into the Hofstadter regime. Most notably, well-quantized odd-denominator FCI states appear in multiple Hofstadter subbands over unusually large ranges of density. We also observe a bending and resetting of the Landau minifan reminiscent of behavior commonly seen in magic-angle samples near integer filling at low magnetic field.

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Finney et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de5d9383cbc991d0a1fe7ahttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.12819
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