Equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics of a hole in a bilayer antiferromagnet

Abstract

The dynamics of charge carriers in lattices of quantum spins is a long standing and fundamental problem. Recently, a new generation of quantum simulation experiments based on atoms in optical lattices has emerged that gives unprecedented insights into the detailed spatial and temporal dynamics of this problem, which compliments earlier results from condensed matter experiments. Focusing on observables accessible in these new experiments, we explore here the equilibrium as well as non-equilibrium dynamics of a mobile hole in two coupled antiferromagnetic spin lattices. Using a self-consistent Born approximation, we calculate the spectral properties of the hole in the bilayer and extract the energy bands of the quasiparticles, corresponding to magnetic polarons that are either symmetric or anti-symmetric under layer exchange. These two kinds of polarons are degenerate at certain momenta due to the antiferromagnetic symmetry, and we, furthermore, examine how the momentum of the ground state polaron depends on the interlayer coupling strength. The long time dynamics of a hole initially created in one layer is shown to be characterised by oscillations between the two layers with a frequency given by the energy difference between the symmetric and the anti-symmetric polaron. We finally demonstrate that the expansion velocity of a hole initially created at a given lattice site is governed by the ballistic motion of polarons. It moreover depends non-monotonically on the interlayer coupling, eventually increasing as a quantum phase transition to a disordered state is approached.

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