Author(s): Yufei Pei, Shuai A. Chen, Claudio Castelnovo, and Roderich Moessner A study of the counter-Nagaoka problem of a single hole in an infinite-U Hubbard model on the kagome lattice reveals a new type of polaron, a resonating-valence-bond polaron that morphs into semiclassical order as polarization is reduced. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106702] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026