# Short-range antiferromagnetic correlation effect on conduction electrons in two-dimensional strongly correlated electron systems

## TL;DR

This paper explores how short-range antiferromagnetic correlations influence conduction electrons in two-dimensional strongly correlated systems, revealing pseudogap behavior and the importance of long-range correlations and magnon damping.

## Contribution

It introduces a simplified model incorporating short-range antiferromagnetic correlations and analyzes their effects on conduction electron spectral properties.

## Key findings

- Pseudogap-like suppression of quasiparticle weights.
- Disappearance of band folding with increased multi-magnon scattering.
- Broad spectral humps due to multi-magnon Franck-Condon broadening.

## Abstract

We investigate magnetic polarons in two-dimensional strongly correlated electron systems, where conduction electrons interact with antiferromagnetically interacting localized spins. Starting from a basic model, we derive a simplified model with the help of spin Green's function and a perturbation analysis. A strong coupling analysis is applied to the model, where the sum of the scattering wave vectors is approximated to be $(\pi,\pi)$ or zero, using the equation of motion for the conduction electron Green's function, and we discuss the pseudogap like behavior associated with the suppression of the quasiparticle weights and the transition from the large magnetic polaron to the small magnetic polaron. In the antiferromagnetic long-range ordered state, the spectral weight of the conduction electrons has a form of broad humps due to Franck-Condon broadening associated with the multi-magnon scattering. The band folding feature due to the $(\pi,\pi)$ scattering disappears as we increase the number of the magnons involved in the multi-magnon scattering. It is crucial to include long-range antiferromagnetic correlations as well as dumping of magnons.