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Cluster approach to the three-band Hubbard model of the Cu-O plane: Superconducting pairs

Michele Cini, Adalberto Balzarotti

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.14711 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The fully symmetric Cu-O clusters with a central Cu have two-hole singlet eigenstates which are not affected by the on-site repulsion. These pairs become bound states if the number of holes in the cluster is appropriate; moreover, the quantization at half-integer values of a magnetic test flux is consistent with a superconducting pattern. To investigate the mechanism of pairing, we study the symmetric clusters with <~21 atoms and four holes by exact diagonalization. Further, by the diagrammatic expansion of the ground-state energy and of the scattering amplitude, we obtain the spin-flip diagrams for the effective interaction, which is attractive for singlets and repulsive for triplets. A criterion for pairing in cluster calculations is thereby obtained.

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