Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan
| First 5 Authors: Yihang Zeng, Zhengchao Xia, Kaifei Kang, Jiacheng Zhu, Patrick Knüppel
| Summary:
Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states,
can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic
field to enable next-generation topological quantum devices. To date, integer
Chern insulators have been experimentally demonstrated in several systems at
zero magnetic field, but fractional Chern insulators have been reported only in
graphene-based systems under a finite magnetic field. The emergence of
semiconductor moir’e materials, which support tunable topological flat bands,
opens a new opportunity to realize fractional Chern insulators. Here, we report
the observation of both integer and fractional Chern insulators at zero
magnetic field in small-angle twisted bilayer MoTe2 by combining the local
electronic compressibility and magneto-optical measurements. At hole filling
factor {nu}=1 and 2/3, the system is incompressible and spontaneously breaks
time reversal symmetry. We determine the Chern number to be 1 and 2/3 for the
{nu}=1 and {nu}=2/3 gaps, respectively, from their dispersion in filling
factor with applied magnetic field using the Streda formula. We further
demonstrate electric-field-tuned topological phase transitions involving the
Chern insulators. Our findings pave the way for demonstration of quantized
fractional Hall conductance and anyonic excitation and braiding in
semiconductor moir’e materials.
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