# Interacting Valley Chern Insulator and its Topological Imprint on Moir\'{e} Superconductors

## TL;DR

This paper explores how strong interactions in Moiré superlattice systems modify the topological classification of valley Chern insulators, revealing a reduction from integer to Z3 classification and identifying Majorana zero modes as topological signatures.

## Contribution

It demonstrates that interactions reduce the valley Chern insulator classification from Z to Z3 and shows the persistence of topological Majorana modes in doped superconducting states.

## Key findings

- Interaction reduces classification from Z to Z3.
- Valley Chern insulator leaves a Majorana zero mode imprint.
- Topological features persist in superconducting phase.

## Abstract

One salient feature of systems with Moir\'{e} superlattice is that, Chern number of "minibands" originating from each valley of the original graphene Brillouin zone becomes a well-defined quantized number because the miniband from each valley can be isolated from the rest of the spectrum due to the Moir\'{e} potential. Then a Moir\'{e} system with a well-defined valley Chern number can become a nonchiral topological insulator with $U(1) \times Z_3 $ symmetry and a $\mathbb{Z}$ classification at the free fermion level. Here we demonstrate that the strongly interacting nature of the Moir\'{e} system reduces the classification of the valley Chern insulator from $\mathbb{Z}$ to $\mathbb{Z}_3$, and it is topologically equivalent to a bosonic symmetry protected topological state made of local boson operators. We also demonstrate that, even if the system becomes a superconductor when doped away from the valley Chern insulator, the valley Chern insulator still leaves a topological imprint as the localized Majorana fermion zero mode in certain geometric configuration.