Fractional Chern Insulators in Harper-Hofstadter Bands with Higher Chern Number.
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The Harper-Hofstadter model provides a fractal spectrum containing topological bands of any integer Chern number C. We study the many-body physics that is realized by interacting particles occupying Harper-Hofstadter bands with |C|>1. We formulate the predictions of Chern-Simons or composite fermion theory in terms of the filling factor ν, defined as the ratio of particle density to the number of single-particle states per unit area. We show that this theory predicts a series of fractional quantum Hall states with filling factors ν=r/(r|C|+1) for bosons, or ν=r/(2r|C|+1) for fermions. This series includes a bosonic integer quantum Hall state in |C|=2 bands. We construct specific cases where a single band of the Harper-Hofstadter model is occupied. For these cases, we provide numerical evidence that several states in this series are realized as incompressible quantum liquids for bosons with contact interactions.
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1079-7114
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The Royal Society (uf120157)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K030094/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J017639/1)