Tuning Kinetic Magnetism of Strongly Correlated Electrons via a Staggered Flux
Yi-Fei Wang, Chang-De Gong, Z. D. Wang
An interplay between kinetic process and magnetic ordering is manifested when strong correlation and electronic frustration are present: tuning a staggered flux phi from 0 to pi makes the ground state (GS) of an infinite-U Hubbard model change abruptly from a Nagaoka-type ferromagnet to a Haerter-Shastry-type antiferromagnet at a phi_(c), with both states being metallic and of kinetic origin. Intraplaquette spin correlation, as well as nonanalyticity in the GS energy, signals such a novel quantum criticality. This tunable kinetic magnetism is generic and may be experimentally realized.
arXiv:0706.4423•Physical Review Letters•Jan 23, 2008•9 citations