Dichotomy of heavy and light pairs of holes in the $t-J$ model

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Main Authors: Bohrdt, Annabelle, Demler, Eugene, Grusdt, Fabian
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author Bohrdt, Annabelle
Demler, Eugene
Grusdt, Fabian
author_facet Bohrdt, Annabelle
Demler, Eugene
Grusdt, Fabian
contents A key step in unraveling the mysteries of materials exhibiting unconventional superconductivity is to understand the underlying pairing mechanism. While it is widely agreed upon that the pairing glue in many of these systems originates from antiferromagnetic spin correlations, a microscopic description of pairs of charge carriers remains lacking. Here we use state-of-the art numerical methods to probe the internal structure and dynamical properties of pairs of charge carriers in quantum antiferromagnets in four-legged cylinders. Exploiting the full momentum resolution in our simulations, we are able to distinguish two qualitatively different types of bound states: a highly mobile, meta-stable pair, which has a dispersion proportional to the hole hopping $t$, and a heavy pair, which can only move due to spin exchange processes and turns into a flat band in the Ising limit of the model. Understanding the pairing mechanism can on the one hand pave the way to boosting binding energies in related models, and on the other hand enable insights into the intricate competition of various phases of matter in strongly correlated electron systems.
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spellingShingle Dichotomy of heavy and light pairs of holes in the $t-J$ model
Bohrdt, Annabelle
Demler, Eugene
Grusdt, Fabian
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
Superconductivity
A key step in unraveling the mysteries of materials exhibiting unconventional superconductivity is to understand the underlying pairing mechanism. While it is widely agreed upon that the pairing glue in many of these systems originates from antiferromagnetic spin correlations, a microscopic description of pairs of charge carriers remains lacking. Here we use state-of-the art numerical methods to probe the internal structure and dynamical properties of pairs of charge carriers in quantum antiferromagnets in four-legged cylinders. Exploiting the full momentum resolution in our simulations, we are able to distinguish two qualitatively different types of bound states: a highly mobile, meta-stable pair, which has a dispersion proportional to the hole hopping $t$, and a heavy pair, which can only move due to spin exchange processes and turns into a flat band in the Ising limit of the model. Understanding the pairing mechanism can on the one hand pave the way to boosting binding energies in related models, and on the other hand enable insights into the intricate competition of various phases of matter in strongly correlated electron systems.
title Dichotomy of heavy and light pairs of holes in the $t-J$ model
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02322