Fractional Chern Insulator

Nearly flat band with non-zero Chern number — fractional Hall physics

Parameters

FCI physics:
Chern number C = 1
Band width W =
Band gap Δ =

At ν=1/3, 1/5...: FQH-like
many-body gap opens
σ_xy = νe²/h

Berry curvature Ω(k) shown
in momentum space (color)