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Title: Pairing correlations in the cuprates: A numerical study of the three-band Hubbard model

Abstract

We study the three-band Hubbard model for the copper oxide plane of the high-temperature superconducting cuprates using determinant quantum Monte Carlo and the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) and provide a comprehensive view of the pairing correlations in this model using these methods. Specifically, we compute the pair-field susceptibility and study its dependence on temperature, doping, interaction strength, and charge-transfer energy. Using the DCA, we also solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the two-particle Green's function in the particle-particle channel to determine the transition temperature to the superconducting phase on smaller clusters. Our calculations reproduce many aspects of the cuprate phase diagram and indicate that there is an “optimal” value of the charge-transfer energy for the model where Tc is largest. Finally, these results have implications for our understanding of superconductivity in both the cuprates and other doped charge-transfer insulators.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. ETH Zurich, Institute of Applied Physics, Switzerland
  3. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1784123
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Mai, Peizhi, Balduzzi, Giovanni, Johnston, Steven, and Maier, Thomas. Pairing correlations in the cuprates: A numerical study of the three-band Hubbard model. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.103.144514.
Mai, Peizhi, Balduzzi, Giovanni, Johnston, Steven, & Maier, Thomas. Pairing correlations in the cuprates: A numerical study of the three-band Hubbard model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.144514
Mai, Peizhi, Balduzzi, Giovanni, Johnston, Steven, and Maier, Thomas. Mon . "Pairing correlations in the cuprates: A numerical study of the three-band Hubbard model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.144514. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1784123.
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abstractNote = {We study the three-band Hubbard model for the copper oxide plane of the high-temperature superconducting cuprates using determinant quantum Monte Carlo and the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) and provide a comprehensive view of the pairing correlations in this model using these methods. Specifically, we compute the pair-field susceptibility and study its dependence on temperature, doping, interaction strength, and charge-transfer energy. Using the DCA, we also solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the two-particle Green's function in the particle-particle channel to determine the transition temperature to the superconducting phase on smaller clusters. Our calculations reproduce many aspects of the cuprate phase diagram and indicate that there is an “optimal” value of the charge-transfer energy for the model where Tc is largest. Finally, these results have implications for our understanding of superconductivity in both the cuprates and other doped charge-transfer insulators.},
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