The magnetic phases induced by the interplay between disorder acting only on particles with a given spin projection ("spin-dependent disorder") and a local repulsive interaction is explored. To this end the magnetic ground state phase diagram of the Hubbard model at half-filling is computed within dynamical mean-field theory combined with the geometric average over disorder, which is able to describe Anderson localization. Five distinct phases are identified: a ferromagnetically polarized metal, two types of insulators, and two types of spin-selective localized phases. The latter four phases possess different long-range order of the spins. The predicted phase diagram may be tested experimentally using cold fermions in optical lattices subject to spin-dependent random potentials.
@article{arxiv.1607.07708,
title = {Multitude of phases in correlated lattice fermion systems with spin-dependent disorder},
author = {J. Skolimowski and D. Vollhardt and K. Byczuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07708},
year = {2024}
}