Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials
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2023-11-15
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Magnetic properties of materials ranging from conventional ferromagnetic metals to strongly correlated materials such as cuprates originate from Coulomb exchange interactions. The existence of alternate mechanisms for magnetism that could naturally facilitate electrical control has been discussed theoretically, but an experimental demonstration in an extended system has been missing. Here we investigate MoSe₂/WS₂ van der Waals heterostructures in the vicinity of Mott insulator states of electrons forming a frustrated triangular lattice and observe direct evidence of magnetic correlations originating from a kinetic mechanism. By directly measuring electronic magnetization through the strength of the polarization-selective attractive polaron resonance, we find that when the Mott state is electron-doped, the system exhibits ferromagnetic correlations in agreement with the Nagaoka mechanism.
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623 (7987)
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509 - 513
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03636 - Imamoglu, Atac / Imamoglu, Atac
09753 - Demler, Eugene / Demler, Eugene
02205 - FIRST-Lab / FIRST Center for Micro- and Nanoscience
09753 - Demler, Eugene / Demler, Eugene
00002 - ETH Zürich
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204076 - Strongly correlated electrons in van der Waals heterostructures: an optical investigation (SNF)
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