Fractional Chern insulators and composite Fermi liquids vs. charge order in twisted MoTe$_2$
The bandstructure of twisted MoTe$_2$ around 3.7$^\circ$ consists of spin-valley locked Chern bands with a bandwidth that is smaller than the interaction scale. As such, the strongly correlated phases familiar from Landau levels can be realized: Quantum Hall states, composite Fermi liquids and charge order. These state...