Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.241101
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- Simons Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Aspen Center for Physics (NSF) [1066293]
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We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in a spinful Chern insulator. For weak on-site repulsive interactions at half-filling, the system is a weakly correlated Chern insulator adiabatically connected to the noninteracting ground state, while in the limit of infinitely strong repulsion the system is described by an effective spin model recently predicted to exhibit a chiral spin liquid ground state. In the regime of large but finite repulsion, we find an exotic gapped phase with characteristics partaking of both the noninteracting Chern insulator and the chiral spin liquid. This phase has an integer quantized Hall conductivity 2e(2)/h and quasiparticles with electric charges that are integer multiples of the electron charge e, but the ground state on the torus is fourfold degenerate and quasiparticles have fractional statistics. We discuss how these unusual properties affect the outcome of a charge pumping experiment and, by deriving the topological field theory, elucidate that the topological order is of the exotic Z(2) double-semion type.
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