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New Pathways to Topological Flat Bands and Fractional States in Moire Systems
New Pathways to Topological Flat Bands and Fractional States in Moire Systems
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105230
- ISBN
- 9798291567166
- DDC
- 530
- 저자명
- Wan, Xiaohan.
- 서명/저자
- New Pathways to Topological Flat Bands and Fractional States in Moire Systems
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 265 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Sun, Kai.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The experimental realization of TBG and twisted transition metal dichalcogenides has drawn significant interest in the research of topological flat bands in the last few years. The interplay between strong interaction and topology leads to exotic phases; understanding these phases is fundamental to our understanding of condensed matter systems. In this thesis, I explore general requirements to have exact flat bands in moire systems, diversity of properties that these flat bands can manifest and unconventional many-body states that can appear in moire systems. First, we show strained graphene as a promising platform for strongly correlated quantum states. Specially, we investigate the conditions for topological flat bands to appear in both monolayer and bilayer graphene under moire periodic strain. For monolayer graphene, strain can be regarded as a gauge field. While in bilayer graphene, strain decomposes into two separate sectors: symmetric and antisymmetric (under inversion). In the antisymmetric sector, we find the simple gauge field treatment of strain field is not valid any more. We show that nearly flat Chern bands with almost ideal quantum geometry can appear in both stained monolayer and antisymmetric strained bilayer graphene. Next, we explore the effect of moire periodic strain field in a Γ-valley single layer system with a quadratic band crossing point. We discovered that there exist magic strain strength where the middle two bands become exactly flat at the chiral limit of our model, similar to the chiral limit of TBG. One key difference between chiral TBG and our model is in the fluctuation of Berry curvature in the moire Brillouin zone, the flat Chern bands in our system have much more uniform Berry curvature than those of chiral TBG, making them much closer to Landau levels, and thus it offers a new platform for the realization of FCIs. Third, we systematically classify all possible exact flat bands in single and bilayer systems with Dirac or quadratic band crossing points, revealing the symmetry and physical properties that dictate the number of exact flat bands and their topological indices. All known examples of exact flat bands in single and bilayer systems fall under this classification, including chiral TBG, and new examples of exact flat bands are found. We further show that, just like in TBG, topological heavy fermion description of the flat bands with higher degeneracy is possible as long as the Berry curvature distribution is peaked around a point in the moire Brillouin zone. Fourth, we present a new family of ideal topological flat bands where the wavefunction does not obey the holomorphic structure as in LLL. We provide both model examples and universal principles, as well as an analytic method to construct the wavefunctions of these flat bands, revealing their universal properties, including ideal quantum geometry and a Chern number of C = ±2 or higher. Finally, we show that even in the ideal quantum geometry limit, moire flat band systems can exhibit physical phenomena fundamentally different from Landau levels. In particular, we find new fractional quantum Hall states emerging from multi-band vortexable systems, where multiple exactly flat bands appear at the Fermi energy. We use analytic Bloch wavefunctions to uncover the origin of these unconventional fractional states, which arises from the commensurability between the moire unit cell and the magnetic unit cell of an emergent effective magnetic field.
- 일반주제명
- Physics
- 일반주제명
- Quantum physics
- 일반주제명
- Theoretical physics
- 키워드
- Moire systems
- 키워드
- Graphene
- 키워드
- Wavefunctions
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan Physics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0127.
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