Stability of composite fermion states in Chern insulators
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Abstract
We analyze an existence of composite fermion (CF) states in fractional Chern insulators (FCI) using exact diagonalization. The consider Chern insulator models for spinless fermions exhibit a signature of CF states at 2/5 and 3/7 filling factors. Evidences of fractional quantum Hall type phases for a region in a parameter space with larger energy gap are shown by looking at momenta of the n-fold degenerate ground state, spectral flow, quasihole excitation spectrum, and entanglement spectra. We analyze stability of phases as a function of model parameters showing strong correlation with flatness of Berry curvature.
*The authors acknowledges partial financial support from the sources granted for science development in the years 2013-2016, Grant No. IP2012 007372