Magnon-Mediated Superconductivity in the Infinite-$U$ Triangular Lattice
Abstract
We demonstrate that the infinite- triangular-lattice Hubbard model supports a superconducting state built from tightly bound Cooper pairs composed of two holes and one magnon (). Building on the seminal prediction of repulsively bound states, we show that next-nearest-neighbor hopping coherently mixes symmetry-related configurations, stabilizing an -wave bound state with substantial binding energy and a light effective mass. Large-scale DMRG calculations at finite doping identify a magnetization plateau corresponding to a gas of such bound states and quasi--long--range superconducting order with power-law pair correlations. Our results establish a magnon-mediated superconducting mechanism driven by kinetic frustration, with immediate detectable signatures for moir\'e Hubbard materials and ultracold-atom simulators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.06231,
title = {Magnon-Mediated Superconductivity in the Infinite-$U$ Triangular Lattice},
author = {Hantian Zhu and Yixin Zhang and Shang-Shun Zhang and Yang Zhang and Cristian D. Batista},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06231},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
15 pages, 13 figures (including Supplementary Material).Submitted to Physical Review Letters