Magnetism from multiparticle ring exchange in moiré Wigner crystals

Abstract

We investigate the multiparticle ring exchange couplings of the two-dimensional triangular Wigner crystal in external commensurate triangular and honeycomb potentials, using a semiclassical approach valid in the regime where Coulomb interactions dominate over electronic kinetic energy. In this limit, increasing the strength of the potential drives a transition from a ferromagnet to a $120^{\circ }$ Néel antiferromagnet for both external potential types. In the triangular case, we find that the transition occurs already for a weak potential, whereas in the honeycomb case, it occurs when the potential is nearly two orders of magnitude larger. Our results are relevant to the magnetism of generalized Wigner crystal phases observed at certain rational fillings of the moiré superlattice in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers.

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