Frustration-and doping-induced magnetism in a Fermi–Hubbard simulator

M Xu, LH Kendrick, A Kale, Y Gang, G Ji, RT Scalettar… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Geometrical frustration in strongly correlated systems can give rise to a plethora of novel
ordered states and intriguing magnetic phases, such as quantum spin liquids,–. Promising …

Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials

L Ciorciaro, T Smoleński, I Morera, N Kiper, S Hiestand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic properties of materials ranging from conventional ferromagnetic metals to strongly
correlated materials such as cuprates originate from Coulomb exchange interactions. The …

Directly imaging spin polarons in a kinetically frustrated Hubbard system

ML Prichard, BM Spar, I Morera, E Demler, ZZ Yan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of quasiparticles in quantum many-body systems underlies the rich
phenomenology in many strongly interacting materials. In the context of doped Mott …

Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator

M Lebrat, M Xu, LH Kendrick, A Kale, Y Gang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum interference can deeply alter the nature of many-body phases of matter. In the
case of the Hubbard model, Nagaoka proved that introducing a single itinerant charge can …

Observation of spin polarons in a frustrated moiré Hubbard system

Z Tao, W Zhao, B Shen, T Li, P Knüppel, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The electron's kinetic energy plays a pivotal role in magnetism. While virtual electron
hopping promotes antiferromagnetism in an insulator, real hopping processes usually favour …

Impurities and polarons in bosonic quantum gases: a review on recent progress

F Grusdt, N Mostaan, E Demler, LAP Ardila - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This review describes the field of Bose polarons, arising when mobile impurities are
immersed into a bosonic quantum gas. The latter can be realized by a Bose-Einstein …

Hofstadter states and re-entrant charge order in a semiconductor moiré lattice

CR Kometter, J Yu, T Devakul, AP Reddy, Y Zhang… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of moiré materials with flat bands provides a platform to systematically
investigate and precisely control the correlated electronic phases. Here we report on a rich …

Quantum gas microscopy of fermionic triangular-lattice Mott insulators

J Mongkolkiattichai, L Liu, D Garwood, J Yang… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We investigate fermionic Mott insulators in a geometrically frustrated triangular lattice, a
paradigm model system for studying spin liquids and spontaneous time-reversal symmetry …

Strong-coupling phases of trions and excitons in electron-hole bilayers at commensurate densities

DD Dai, L Fu - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We introduce density imbalanced electron-hole bilayers at a commensurate 2: 1 density
ratio as a platform for realizing novel phases of electrons, excitons, and trions. Through the …

Magnonic superconductivity

KG Nazaryan, L Fu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
We uncover a superconducting state with partial spin polarization induced by a magnetic
field. This state, which we call “magnonic superconductor,” lacks a conventional pairing …