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Numerical observation of $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ Nagaoka ferromagnetism

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-03-19 v1

Abstract

We provide numerical evidence of the Nagaoka's theorem in the SU(N)\mathrm{SU}(N) Fermi-Hubbard model on various cluster geometries, such as the square, the honeycomb and the triangular lattices. In particular, by diagonalizing several finite-size clusters, we show that for one hole away from filling 1/N1/N, the itinerant ferromagnetism arises for UU (the positive on-site interaction) larger than UcU_c (the value at the transition), which strongly depends on the coordination number zz and on NN, the number of degenerate orbitals, that we vary from N=2N=2 to N=6N=6 in our simulations. We prove that UcU_c is a non decreasing function of NN. In addition, we find that the lattice dependency is rooted in the kinetic energy of the hole. We find that large coordination numbers zz lower the value of UcU_c. Complementary, we explore the effect of long-range hopping on the appearance of itinerant ferromagnetism and demonstrate that it acts as an increased coordination number, protecting the ferromagnetic phase at small UU. Finally, both the effects of the presence of some additional holes and of the finite size of the clusters are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2403.11588,
  title  = {Numerical observation of $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ Nagaoka ferromagnetism},
  author = {Thomas Botzung and Pierre Nataf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.11588},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 9 figures