Scalapino, D. J., Loh, E. & Hirsch, J. E. d-wave pairing near a spin-density-wave instability. Phys. Rev. B 34, 8190–8192 (1986).
Scalapino, D. J., Loh, E. & Hirsch, J. E. Fermi-surface instabilities and superconducting d-wave pairing. Phys. Rev. B 35, 6694–6698 (1987).
Anderson, P. W. The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity. Science 235, 1196–1198 (1987).
Gros, C., Joynt, R. & Rice, T. M. Antiferromagnetic correlations in almost-localized Fermi liquids. Phys. Rev. B 36, 381–393 (1987).
Zhang, F. C. & Rice, T. M. Effective Hamiltonian for the superconducting Cu oxides. Phys. Rev. B 37, 3759–3761 (1988).
Zhang, F. C., Gros, C., Rice, T. M. & Shiba, H. A renormalised Hamiltonian approach to a resonant valence bond wavefunction. Supercond. Sci. Technol. 1, 36 (1988).
Kotliar, G. & Liu, J. Superexchange mechanism and d-wave superconductivity. Phys. Rev. B 38, 5142–5145 (1988).
Schrieffer, J. R., Wen, X.-G. & Zhang, S.-C. Spin-bag mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 944–947 (1988).
Monthoux, P., Balatsky, A. V. & Pines, D. Toward a theory of high-temperature superconductivity in the antiferromagnetically correlated cuprate oxides. Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3448–3451 (1991).
Monthoux, P., Balatsky, A. V. & Pines, D. Weak-coupling theory of high-temperature superconductivity in the antiferromagnetically correlated copper oxides. Phys. Rev. B 46, 14803–14817 (1992).
Dai, P., Mook, H. A., Hunt, R. D. & Doğan, F. Evolution of the resonance and incommensurate spin fluctuations in superconducting YBa2Cu3O6+x. Phys. Rev. B 63, 054525 (2001).
Anderson, P. W. et al. The physics behind high-temperature superconducting cuprates: the ‘plain vanilla’ version of RVB. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 16, R755 (2004).
Anderson, P. W. Physics of the resonating valence bond (pseudogap) state of the doped Mott insulator: spin-charge locking. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017001 (2006).
Edegger, B., Muthukumar, V. N. & Gros, C. Gutzwiller-RVB theory of high-temperature superconductivity: results from renormalized mean-field theory and variational Monte Carlo calculations. Adv. Phys. 56, 927–1033 (2007).
Dahm, T. et al. Strength of the spin-fluctuation-mediated pairing interaction in a high-temperature superconductor. Nat. Phys. 5, 217–221 (2009).
Le Tacon, M. et al. Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors. Nat. Phys. 7, 725–730 (2011).
Dean, M. P. M. et al. Persistence of magnetic excitations in La2−xSrxCuO4 from the undoped insulator to the heavily overdoped non-superconducting metal. Nat. Mater. 12, 1019–1023 (2013).
Lu, H. et al. Magnetic excitations in infinite-layer nickelates. Science 373, 213–216 (2021).
Fowlie, J. et al. Intrinsic magnetism in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates. Nat. Phys. 18, 1043–1047 (2022).
Miyake, K., Schmitt-Rink, S. & Varma, C. M. Spin-fluctuation-mediated even-parity pairing in heavy-fermion superconductors. Phys. Rev. B 34, 6554–6556 (1986).
Mathur, N. D. et al. Magnetically mediated superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds. Nature 394, 39–43 (1998).
White, B., Thompson, J. & Maple, M. Unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion compounds. Physica C 514, 246–278 (2015).
Zhou, H. et al. Isospin magnetism and spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene. Science 375, 774–778 (2022).
de la Barrera, S. C. et al. Cascade of isospin phase transitions in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene at zero magnetic field. Nat. Phys. 18, 771–775 (2022).
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018).
Sharpe, A. L. et al. Emergent ferromagnetism near three-quarters filling in twisted bilayer graphene. Science 365, 605–608 (2019).
Chen, G. et al. Tunable correlated Chern insulator and ferromagnetism in a moiré superlattice. Nature 579, 56–61 (2020).
Tang, Y. et al. Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices. Nature 579, 353–358 (2020).
Ciorciaro, L. et al. Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials. Nature 623, 509–513 (2023).
Tang, Y. et al. Evidence of frustrated magnetic interactions in a Wigner–Mott insulator. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 233–237 (2023).
Xia, Y. et al. Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 637, 833–838 (2025).
Scalapino, D. J. A common thread: the pairing interaction for unconventional superconductors. Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 1383–1417 (2012).
Keimer, B., Kivelson, S. A., Norman, M. R., Uchida, S. & Zaanen, J. From quantum matter to high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides. Nature 518, 179–186 (2015).
Migdal, A. B. Interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations in a normal metal. Sov. Phys. JETP 34, 996–1001 (1958).
Eliashberg, G. M. Interactions between electrons and lattice vibrations in a superconductor. Sov. Phys. JETP 11, 696–702 (1960).
Bourges, P. et al. The spin excitation spectrum in superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.85. Science 288, 1234–1237 (2000).
Tranquada, J. M. et al. Quantum magnetic excitations from stripes in copper oxide superconductors. Nature 429, 534–538 (2004).
Hayden, S. M., Mook, H. A., Dai, P., Perring, T. G. & Doğan, F. The structure of the high-energy spin excitations in a high-transition-temperature superconductor. Nature 429, 531–534 (2004).
Wakimoto, S. et al. Disappearance of antiferromagnetic spin excitations in overdoped La2−xSrxCuO4. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247003 (2007).
Braicovich, L. et al. Dispersion of magnetic excitations in the cuprate La2CuO4 and CaCuO2 compounds measured using resonant x-ray scattering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 167401 (2009).
Braicovich, L. et al. Magnetic excitations and phase separation in the underdoped La2−xSrxCuO4 superconductor measured by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 077002 (2010).
Ament, L. J. P., van Veenendaal, M., Devereaux, T. P., Hill, J. P. & van den Brink, J. Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies of elementary excitations. Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 705–767 (2011).
Chaix, L. et al. Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies of magnons and bimagnons in the lightly doped cuprate La2−xSrxCuO4. Phys. Rev. B 97, 155144 (2018).
Devereaux, T. P. & Hackl, R. Inelastic light scattering from correlated electrons. Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 175–233 (2007).
Fujita, M. et al. Progress in neutron scattering studies of spin excitations in high-Tc cuprates. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 81, 011007 (2012).
Ji, G. et al. Coupling a mobile hole to an antiferromagnetic spin background: transient dynamics of a magnetic polaron. Phys. Rev. X 11, 021022 (2021).
Koepsell, J. et al. Imaging magnetic polarons in the doped Fermi–Hubbard model. Nature 572, 358–362 (2019).
Prichard, M. L. et al. Directly imaging spin polarons in a kinetically frustrated Hubbard system. Nature 629, 323–328 (2024).
Lebrat, M. et al. Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator. Nature 629, 317–322 (2024).
Hartke, T., Oreg, B., Turnbaugh, C., Jia, N. & Zwierlein, M. Direct observation of nonlocal fermion pairing in an attractive Fermi–Hubbard gas. Science 381, 82–86 (2023).
Schirotzek, A., Wu, C.-H., Sommer, A. & Zwierlein, M. W. Observation of Fermi polarons in a tunable Fermi liquid of ultracold atoms. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230402 (2009).
Koschorreck, M. et al. Attractive and repulsive Fermi polarons in two dimensions. Nature 485, 619–622 (2012).
Kohstall, C. et al. Metastability and coherence of repulsive polarons in a strongly interacting Fermi mixture. Nature 485, 615–618 (2012).
Cetina, M. et al. Ultrafast many-body interferometry of impurities coupled to a Fermi sea. Science 354, 96–99 (2016).
Yan, Z. Z., Ni, Y., Robens, C. & Zwierlein, M. W. Bose polarons near quantum criticality. Science 368, 190–194 (2020).
Ness, G. et al. Observation of a smooth polaron–molecule transition in a degenerate Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. X 10, 041019 (2020).
Parish, M. M. & Levinsen, J. Highly polarized Fermi gases in two dimensions. Phys. Rev. A 87, 033616 (2013).
Jørgensen, N. B. et al. Observation of attractive and repulsive polarons in a Bose–Einstein condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055302 (2016).
Hu, M.-G. et al. Bose polarons in the strongly interacting regime. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055301 (2016).
Darkwah Oppong, N. et al. Observation of coherent multiorbital polarons in a two-dimensional Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193604 (2019).
Duda, M. et al. Transition from a polaronic condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of heteronuclear molecules. Nat. Phys. 19, 720–725 (2023).
Zürn, G. et al. Precise characterization of 6Li Feshbach resonances using trap-sideband-resolved RF spectroscopy of weakly bound molecules. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 135301 (2013).
Navarro, I. M., Weitenberg, C., Sengstock, K. & Demler, E. Exploring kinetically induced bound states in triangular lattices with ultracold atoms: spectroscopic approach. SciPost Phys. 16, 081 (2024).
Vaknin, D. et al. Antiferromagnetism in La2CuO4−y. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2802 (1987).
Fong, H. F. et al. Spin susceptibility in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x. Phys. Rev. B 61, 14773–14786 (2000).
Fong, H. et al. Neutron scattering from magnetic excitations in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ. Nature 398, 588–591 (1999).
Chevy, F. Universal phase diagram of a strongly interacting Fermi gas with unbalanced spin populations. Phys. Rev. A 74, 063628 (2006).
Mora, C. & Chevy, F. Ground state of a tightly bound composite dimer immersed in a Fermi sea. Phys. Rev. A 80, 033607 (2009).
Punk, M., Dumitrescu, P. T. & Zwerger, W. Polaron-to-molecule transition in a strongly imbalanced Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. A 80, 053605 (2009).
Lovesey, S. W. Theory of Neutron Scattering from Condensed Matter (Oxford Univ. Press, 1984).
Brown, P. T. et al. Spin-imbalance in a 2D Fermi–Hubbard system. Science 357, 1385–1388 (2017).