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Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer TMDs

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arxiv 2308.03143 v2 pith:WWGEETO7 submitted 2023-08-06 cond-mat.str-el

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We explain the appearance of magic angles and fractional Chern insulators in twisted K-valley homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides by mapping their continuum model to a Landau level problem. Our approach relies on an adiabatic approximation for the quantum mechanics of valence band holes in a layer-pseudospin field that is valid for sufficiently small twist angles and on a lowest Landau level approximation that is valid for sufficiently large twist angles. It simply explains why the quantum geometry of the lowest moir\'e miniband is nearly ideal at particular flat-band twist angles, predicts that topological flat bands occur only when the valley-dependent moir\'e potential is sufficiently strong compared to the interlayer tunneling amplitude, and provides a powerful starting point for the study of interactions

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