Moiré assisted fractional quantum Hall state spectroscopy

Intra-Landau level excitations in the fractional quantum Hall regime are not accessible via optical absorption measurements. We point out that optical probes are enabled by the periodic potentials produced by a moiré pattern. Our observation is motivated by the recent observations of fractional quantum Hall incompressible states in moiré-patterned graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate, and is theoretically based on f -sum rule considerations supplemented by a perturbative analysis of the influence of the moiré potential on many-body states.