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Observation of dissipationless fractional Chern insulator

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Nature Physics, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03167-2

Fractional Chern insulators have been observed in moiré MoTe2 at zero magnetic field, but the expected zero longitudinal resistance has not been demonstrated. Now it is shown that improving device quality allows this effect to appear.