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Charge-transfer excitations in the cuprate superconductors

Z. Dadachanji, R. W. Godby, R. J. Needs, P. B. Littlewood

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.52.16204 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

First-principles calculations of the dielectric matrix of the key structural element of the copper-oxide super-conductors show a weakly damped resonance at 3.5 eV which contains most of the oscillator strength in charge-transfer excitations. Such excitations have been proposed as a mediating boson for superconductive pairing. Although this mode is a well-developed and robust excitation, we find its energy to be too large to give high superconducting transition temperatures.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
CuO2

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