Bohrdt, A.; Demler, E.; Grusdt, F. (2023): Dichotomy of heavy and light pairs of holes in the t−J model. Nature Communications, 14 (1). ISSN 2041-1723
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Abstract
A key step in unraveling the mysteries of materials exhibiting unconventional superconductivity is to understand the underlying pairing mechanism. While it is widely agreed upon that the pairing glue in many of these systems originates from antiferromagnetic spin correlations, a microscopic description of pairs of charge carriers remains lacking. Here we use state-of-the art numerical methods to probe the internal structure and dynamical properties of pairs of charge carriers in quantum antiferromagnets in four-legged cylinders. Exploiting the full momentum resolution in our simulations, we are able to distinguish two qualitatively different types of bound states: a highly mobile, meta-stable pair, which has a dispersion proportional to the hole hopping t, and a heavy pair, which can only move due to spin exchange processes and turns into a flat band in the Ising limit of the model. Understanding the pairing mechanism can on the one hand pave the way to boosting binding energies in related models, and on the other hand enable insights into the intricate competition of various phases of matter in strongly correlated electron systems.
Doc-Type: | Article (LMU) |
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Organisational unit (Faculties): | 17 Physics |
DFG subject classification of scientific disciplines: | Natural sciences |
Date Deposited: | 09. Feb 2024 09:46 |
Last Modified: | 09. Feb 2024 09:58 |
URI: | https://oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/1135 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 491502892 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 390814868 |