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Haerter-Shastry kinetic magnetism and metallicity in the triangular Hubbard model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-10-23 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The fermionic Hubbard model, when combined with the ingredient of frustration, associated with the breaking of particle-hole symmetry, harbors a rich phase diagram. Aspects of theoretical findings associated with the nature of magnetism and metallicity, in a diverse set of parameter regimes, are now being actively investigated in triangular Hubbard cold atom and solid-state (moir\'e) based emulators. Building on the theoretical work of Haerter and Shastry [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95,087202 (2005)], we explore the impact of kinetically frustrated magnetism, a phenomenon where antiferromagnetic order emerges without any underlying magnetic interactions, at finite hole density. We numerically study the infinite-UU triangular Hubbard model using the density matrix renormalization group algorithm and estimate the extent of stability of the kinetically induced 120120^{\circ} antiferromagnetic state to hole doping. Beyond the Haerter-Shastry regime, we find an intermediate phase with multimer (involving multiple correlated spins) stripes that eventually gives way to a paramagnet. We also find evidence of gapless charge excitations (metallicity) throughout the phase diagram for finite hole density. We discuss the implications at large, but finite and realistic values of U/tU/t, and investigate whether kinetic magnetism and superexchange collaborate or compete.

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@article{arxiv.2510.18954,
  title  = {Haerter-Shastry kinetic magnetism and metallicity in the triangular Hubbard model},
  author = {Sogoud Sherif and Prakash Sharma and Aman Kumar and Hitesh J. Changlani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18954},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 11 figures, 4 appendices, Comments welcome