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Classical Antiferromagnetism in Kinetically Frustrated Electronic Models

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: We study, by means of the density matrix renormalization group, the infinite U Hubbard model--with one hole doped away from half filling--in triangular and square lattices with frustrated hoppings, which invalidate Nagaoka's theorem. We find that these kinetically frustrated models have antiferromagnetic ground states with classical local magnetization in the thermodynamic limit. We identify the mechanism of this kinetic antiferromagnetism with the release of the kinetic energy frustration, as the hole moves in the established antiferromagnetic background. This release can occur in two different ways: by a nontrivial spin Berry phase acquired by the hole, or by the effective vanishing of the hopping amplitude along the frustrating loops.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2134415058
FWCI: 0.642
Cites: 31
Cited by: 37
Related to: 10