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High-temperature kinetic magnetism in triangular lattices

Ivan Morera1,2, Márton Kanász-Nagy3,4, Tomasz Smolenski5, Livio Ciorciaro5, Ataç Imamoğlu5, and Eugene Demler6

  • 1Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
  • 2Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
  • 3Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
  • 4Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), Schellingstrasse 4, D-80799 München, Germany
  • 5Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
  • 6Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L022048 – Published 5 June, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022048

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We study kinetic magnetism for the Fermi-Hubbard model in triangular lattices. We focus on the regime of strong interactions, U≫t, and filling factors around one electron per site. For temperatures well above the hopping strength t, the Curie-Weiss form of the magnetic susceptibility suggests two complementary forms of kinetic magnetism. In the case of hole doping, antiferromagnetic polarons originate from kinetic frustration of individual holes, whereas for electron doping, Nagaoka-type ferromagnetic correlations are induced by propagating doublons. These results provide a possible theoretical explanation of recent experimental results in moiré transition metaldichalcogenide materials and cold atom systems. To understand many-body states arising from antiferromagentic polarons at low temperatures, we study hole-doped systems in finite magnetic fields. At low dopings and intermediate magnetic fields, we find a magnetic polaron phase, separated from the fully polarized state by a metamagnetic transition. With decreasing magnetic field, the system shows a tendency to phase separate with hole-rich regions forming antiferromagnetic spin bags. We demonstrate that direct observations of magnetic polarons in triangular lattices can be achieved in experiments with ultracold atoms, which allow measurements of three point hole-spin-spin correlations.

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L022048– Published 5 June, 2023
  • Received 30 September 2022
  • Revised 12 January 2023
  • Accepted 6 May 2023
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