3 papers
cond-mat.str-el2025
Supernematic
Dan Mao, Eun-Ah Kim
Quantum theory of geometrically frustrated systems is usually approached as a gauge theory where the local conservation law becomes the Gauss law. Here we show that it can do somet…
cond-mat.str-el2025
How quantum fluctuations freeze a classical liquid and then melt it into a topological one
Hao Chen, Dan Mao, Andrea Kouta Dagnino +5
Topologically ordered quantum liquids are highly sought-after quantum phases of matter, and recently, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) joined the few experimental realizations of…
cond-mat.str-el2024
Bionic fractionalization in the trimer model of twisted bilayer graphene
Kevin Zhang, Dan Mao, Eun-Ah Kim +1
Motivated by the rapid experimental progress in twisted van der Waals materials, we study the triangular trimer model as a representative framework for extended Wannier orbitals in…