Kinetic magnetism in triangular lattices

7 Jan 2026, 09:05
35m
Saas Fee

Saas Fee

Conference center Steinmatte
Invited talk (by invitation only) Theory Wednesday Morning Session I, Chair A. Balatsky

Speaker

Eugene Demler (ETH Zurich)

Description

This talk will review kinetic magnetism in the Fermi Hubbard model in triangular lattices. Focus will be on the regime of strong interactions, $t<<U$. In such systems for densities close to $n=1$ dominant magnetic interactions arise from magnetic polaron dressing of charge carrier propagating in a spin incoherent Mott insulator. In the case of hole doping, antiferromagnetic polarons originate from kinetic frustration of individual holes in a triangular lattice. In the case electron doping, Nagaoka type ferromagnetic correlations are induced by propagating doublons. I will discuss how this mechanism explains some of the surprising magnetic phenomena observed in moire systems of transition metal dichalcogenides. I will also review recent experimental studies of this phenomena in experiments with quantum gas microscopes and Rydberg atom arrays.

email address demlere@phys.ethz.ch
Affiliation demlere@phys.ethz.ch

Author

Eugene Demler (ETH Zurich)

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