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Magnon-Mediated Superconductivity in the Infinite-$U$ Triangular Lattice

Superconductivity 2026-02-09 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that the infinite-UU triangular-lattice Hubbard model supports a superconducting state built from tightly bound Cooper pairs composed of two holes and one magnon (2h1m2h1m). Building on the seminal prediction of repulsively bound 2h1m2h1m states, we show that next-nearest-neighbor hopping t2t_{2} coherently mixes symmetry-related configurations, stabilizing an ss-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 2h1m2h1m 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:23:28.090Z