Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands

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• Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University
• Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:15-15:45
• Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

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It has been known for some time that a system with a filled band will have an integer quantum Hall conductance equal to its Chern number, a topological index associated with the band. While this is true for a system in a magnetic field with filled Landau Levels, even a system in zero external field can exhibit the QHE if its band has a Chern number. I review this issue and discuss a more recent question of whether a partially filled Chern band can exhibit the Fractional QHE . I describe the work done with Ganpathy Murthy, in which we show how composite fermions, which were so useful in explaining the usual FQHE , can be introduced here and with equal success by adapting our Hamiltonian Theory of CFs developed for the FQHE in the continuum.

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