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Maria Daghofer1, Krzysztof Wohlfeld2, Jeroen van den Brink3,4
1Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Funktionelle Materie und Quantentechnologien, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
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While a spin-dependent band splitting is one of the characteristic features of altermagnets, the conventional band picture itself breaks down in the many altermagnets that are correlated Mott materials. We employ two numerical many-body methods, the self-consistent Born approximation and a variational cluster approach, to explore this strongly correlated regime and investigate hole motion in Mott altermagnets. Our results reveal that spin-dependent spectral-weight transfer is the dominant signature of Mott altermagnetism. This pronounced spin-momentum locking of the quasiparticle spectral weight arises from the formation of altermagnetic polarons, whose dynamics are governed by the interplay between free hole motion and the coupling of the hole to magnon excitations in the altermagnet. We demonstrate this effect by calculating angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy spectra for three canonical altermagnetic systems: the checkerboard J-J^{'} model, a variant describing the transition-metal-ion sites of the inverse Lieb lattice, and the Kugel-Khomskii spin-orbital altermagnet based on cubic vanadates RVO_{3} (R=La, Pr, Nd, Y).
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