
2
trated regime, which we show to be accurately described
by a J1−J2−type spin-Hamiltonian.
Our method is directly applicable to experimental data
obtained from ultracold quantum gas microscopes. We
showcase this by reconstructing effective Hamiltonians
from 1D measurements of the FH model [22], where spin-
charge separation governs the physics of the chains. Fur-
thermore, our insights could be used to effectively simu-
late the highly frustrated J1−J2model in ultracold atom
experiments by implementing the mixD setting and post-
processing the measurements.
Our work sheds light on the long-standing question
about the interplay of spin- and motional degrees of
freedom in strongly correlated materials, and paves the
way to gain deep microscopic insights into prototypical
systems such as the 2D FH and t−Jmodel.
Results
The model. We consider the t−Jmodel in mixD [10,
33–35], described by the Hamiltonian
ˆ
H=−t
⟨i,j⟩x,σ
ˆ
PGW ˆc†
i,σ ˆcj,σ +h.c.ˆ
PGW +
J
⟨i,j⟩ˆ
Si⋅ˆ
Sj−ˆniˆnj
4.
(1)
Here, ˆc(†)
i, ˆniand ˆ
Siare fermionic annihilation (creation),
charge density, and spin operators on site i, respectively;
i,j(x)denotes a nearest-neighbor (NN) pair on a 2D
square lattice (with subscript xindicating a NN pair only
along the x-direction), and ˆ
PGW is the Gutzwiller oper-
ator projecting out states with double occupancy. The
mixD setting, Eq. (1), has successfully been implemented
in ultracold atom setups using strong tilted potential gra-
dients [11], which effectively restrict hole motion perpen-
dicular to the gradient direction while spin-spin interac-
tions remain 2D [36,37].
Recently, we demonstrated how hidden AFM correla-
tions in the mixD t−Jmodel result in the formation of a
remarkably resilient stripe phase (i.e. a coupled charge-
and spin-density wave [38,39]), with critical tempera-
tures on the order of the magnetic coupling J[35]. Above
these critical temperatures of charge- and spin-density
wave formation, holes were found to form a deconfined
chargon gas, i.e., a phase without order [34,35].
In the following, we focus on the latter regime, and
study how hole motion distorts the spins in the back-
ground. The effect is qualitatively depicted in Fig. 1a.
The upper panel shows an (idealized) real space snap-
shot of holes moving through an AFM N´eel background.
Bonds correspond to AFM interactions in the instan-
taneous charge configuration, illustrated by gray lines.
In between holes on neighboring legs, spins are aligned,
leading to a linearly increasing magnetic energy penalty
via the formation of geometric strings [21,40–42] (de-
picted by green wiggly lines).
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real space
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e↵.Jx
1Jy
1J2model
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Jy
1
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Jx
1
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J2
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stripe AFM
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frustrated
FIG. 1. Hole-motion-induced spin frustration.a,
Schematic of how hole hopping induces frustration in the spin
background. Upper panel: Snapshot of holes moving through
a N´eel background. Spatial separation of holes on neighboring
legs lead to the formation of geometric strings (green wiggly
lines) costing magnetic energy. Lower panel: Upon trans-
forming the snapshot to squeezed space, originally vertical
bonds Jy
1in between two holes on neighboring legs become
effective diagonal couplings J2. The resulting energy penalty
of aligned diagonal spins leads to frustration in the magnetic
background. b, Hamiltonian reconstruction results (blue) for
hole dopings nh=0.05 ...0.2 of a mixD t−Jladder with
t/J=3, Lx×Ly=20×2 and T/J=5/3∼1.67. Reconstructions
of squeezed space according to the input Jx
1−Jy
1−J2Heisen-
berg Hamiltonian, Eq. (2), are presented in a Jy
1/Jx
1, J2/Jx
1
diagram. Light regions in the background signal the presence
of either AFM or stripe AFM order in the purely magnetic
Jx
1−Jy
1−J2model in the ground state by plotting the sum
of the spin structure factors S(π, π)+S(0, π). Dark regions
correspond to a highly frustrated regime without apparent
order. Upon doping the system, the background spins are
driven into a strongly frustrated state. Error bars correspond
to the standard error to the mean when averaging over ten
reconstruction runs. Red connected symbols show theoretical
expectations assuming no spin-hole correlations in the mixD
t−Jmodel, i.e., ˆρ=ˆρs⊗ˆρc, evaluated via Eq. (4) and (5).
As a direct consequence of the restricted charge mo-
tion to 1D, spins can be relabeled by the new positions
they have after moving all holes to the right in each
chain – resulting in a distinct definition of squeezed
space [32,43]. More formally, consider a Fock state
yσ[1,y], σ[2,y],...,σ[Lx,y], where {0,↑,↓}∋σx,y is
the single particle basis of the t−Jmodel. These
local spin charge configurations are relabeled upon
squeezing, whereby each Fock state is now given by