Kinetic Energy Driven Ferromagnetic Insulator

Abstract

We construct a minimal model of interacting fermions establishing a ferromagnetic insulating phase. It is based on the Hubbard model on a trimerized triangular lattice in the regime of $t\gg |t^{\prime }|>0$ with $t$ and $t^{\prime }$ the intra- and inter-trimer hopping amplitudes, respectively. At the $\frac{1}{3}$-filling, each trimer becomes a triplet spin-1 moment, and the inter-trimer superexchange is ferromagnetic with $J=-\frac{2}{27}\frac{t^{\prime 2}}{t}$ in the limit of $U/t=+\infty$. As $U/t$ becomes finite, the antiferromagnetic superexchange competes with the ferromagnetic one. The system enters into a frustrated antiferromagnetic insulator when $\lambda >U/t\gg 1$ where $\lambda$ is a constant at the order of 10. In contrast, a similar analysis to the trimerized Kagome lattice shows that only the antiferromagnetic superexchange exists at $\frac{1}{3}$-filling.

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