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most citedSymmetry broken Chern insulators and magic series of Rashba-like Landau level crossings in magic angle bilayer graphene

199 citations · 844 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Imaging an obstructed Wannier orbital

Yiting Huang, Benjamin H. November, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman +3

In conventional insulators, electronic charge is localized in Wannier orbitals centered on the atoms. In an obstructed atomic insulator (OAI), the Wannier orbitals sit instead in t…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Exact Stiffness and Dynamical Responses from Fock-Space Fragmentation

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Eslam Khalaf, Zhaoyu Han

Exactly solvable quantum many-body models are rare, and even when their spectra are algebraically organized, dynamical responses generally remain difficult to obtain because they p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Resonant Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Flat-Band Fermions in Magic Angle Graphene

Ayelet J. Uzan-Narovlansky, Ipsita Das, Juan F. Mendez Valderrama +10

Moiré engineering in twisted two-dimensional (2D) materials radically alters low-energy bands, interactions and topological quantum states. Despite extensive studies, optical spect…

cond-mat.str-el2026

The "Moiré Capacitor Effect" and Stabilization of Fractional Chern Insulators in Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices

Nicolas Regnault, Heqiu Li, Yves H. Kwan +2

While the necessity of a moiré potential for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral graphene-hBN superlattices, first predicted in Ref. 1, is now grounded in experiment…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Fermiology and the Candidate Chiral Superconductor in Rhombohedral Tetralayer Graphene

Sandesh S. Kalantre, Ben H. Alexander, Julian May-Mann +11

Chiral superconductivity, in which the phase of the superconducting order parameter winds in momentum space, has long been sought for its close link to topological superconductivit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Does Moire Matter? Critical Moire Dependence with Quantum Fluctuations in Graphene Based Integer and Fractional Chern Insulators

Zihao Huo, Wenxuan Wang, Jian Xie +11

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for investigating flat-band-driven correlated phenomena, yet most aspects remain not understood. In this work, w…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Exact models of chiral flat-band superconductors

Zhaoyu Han, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Qiang Gao +1

Recent experiments have reported the surprising observation of superconductivity in flavor polarized, nearly flat bands (FBs) of rhombohedral graphene. Motivated by these findings,…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Interplay between many-body correlations, strain and lattice relaxation in twisted bilayer graphene

Lorenzo Crippa, Gautam Rai, Dumitru Călugăru +6

In twisted bilayer graphene, a unified understanding of the mechanisms governing temperature-dependent electronic spectra and thermodynamic properties remains controversial despite…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Revealing electron-electron interactions in graphene at room temperature with the quantum twisting microscope

M. Lee, I. Das, J. Herzog-Arbeitman +20

The Quantum Twisting Microscope (QTM) is a groundbreaking instrument that enables energy- and momentum-resolved measurements of quantum phases via tunneling spectroscopy across twi…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moiré Fractional Chern Insulators

Miguel Gonçalves, Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman +5

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 spon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Unconventional Orbital Magnetism in Graphene-based Fractional Chern Insulators

Jian Xie, Zaizhe Zhang, Xi Chen +11

Orbital magnetism in graphene originates from correlation-driven spontaneous valley symmetry breaking1-7. It can lead to various anomalous transport phenomena such as integer and f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Observation of High-Temperature Dissipationless Fractional Chern Insulator

Heonjoon Park, Weijie Li, Chaowei Hu +13

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect has recently been experimentally observed in zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCI). However, an outstanding challenge is the pre…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Kekulé Spiral Order from Strained Topological Heavy Fermions

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Dumitru Călugăru, Haoyu Hu +5

The topological heavy fermion (THF) model of twisted bilayer graphene is a framework for treating its strongly interacting topological flat bands. In this work, we employ the THF m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 18 cited

Spectroscopy of the Fractal Hofstadter Energy Spectrum

Kevin P. Nuckolls, Michael G. Scheer, Dillon Wong +7

Hofstadter's butterfly, the predicted energy spectrum for non-interacting electrons confined to a two-dimensional lattice in a magnetic field, is one of the most remarkable fractal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 7 cited

Universal Wilson Loop Bound of Quantum Geometry

Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, B. Andrei Bernevig

We define the absolute Wilson loop winding and prove that it bounds the (integrated) quantum metric from below. This Wilson loop lower bound naturally reproduces the known Chern an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Strongly interacting Hofstadter states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiaqi Cai +8

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a multitude of strongly correlated states at partial fillings of its flat bands. In a magnetic field, these flat bands further ev…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 1 cited

Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators IV: Fluctuation-Driven Collapse of FCIs in Multi-Band Exact Diagonalization Calculations on Rhombohedral Graphene

Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Yves H. Kwan +2

The fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) observed in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattices have a unique origin contrary to theoretical expectations:…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Heavy Fermions as an Efficient Representation of Atomistic Strain and Relaxation in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Jiabin Yu, Dumitru Călugăru +5

Although the strongly interacting flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have been approached using the minimal Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) Hamiltonian, there is mounting evide…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 2 cited

Topological Heavy Fermion Principle For Flat (Narrow) Bands With Concentrated Quantum Geometry

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Jiabin Yu, Dumitru Călugăru +8

We propose a general principle for the low-energy theory of narrow bands with concentrated Berry curvature and Fubini-Study metric in the form of a map to Anderson-"+" models compo…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 22 cited

"Quantum Geometric Nesting" and Solvable Model Flat-Band Systems

Zhaoyu Han, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, B. Andrei Bernevig +1

We introduce the concept of "quantum geometric nesting'' (QGN) to characterize the idealized ordering tendencies of certain flat-band systems implicit in the geometric structure of…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 36 cited

Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators III: Hartree-Fock Phase Diagram, Magic Angle Regime for Chern Insulator States, the Role of the Moiré Potential and Goldstone Gaps in Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices

Yves H. Kwan, Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman +3

We investigate in detail the displacement-field-tuned interacting phase diagram of layer rhombohedral graphene aligned to hBN (RG/hBN). Our calculations acc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 2 cited

Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators II: First-principles Calculations and Continuum Models of Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Yuzhi Wang, Jiaxuan Liu +10

The experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has preceded theoretical prediction. S…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 3 cited

Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators I: First-principles calculations and Continuum Models of Twisted Bilayer MoTe

Yujin Jia, Jiabin Yu, Jiaxuan Liu +6

Recent experiments observed fractional Chern insulators (FCI) in twisted bilayer MoTe at zero magnetic field, yet even the single-particle model of this material is controversi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 6 cited

Fractional Chern Insulators vs. Non-Magnetic States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe

Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Minxuan Wang +3

Fractionally filled Chern bands with strong interactions may give rise to fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states, the zero-field analogue of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Re…