Plaquette valence bond theory of high-temperature superconductivity

Plaquette valence bond theory of high-temperature superconductivity

Chiral plaquette polaron theory of cuprate superconductivity

Ab initio density functional calculations on explicitly doped La2−xSrxCuO4 find that doping creates localized holes in out-of-plane orbitals. A model for cuprate superconductivity is developed based on the assumption that doping leads to the formation of holes on a four-site Cu plaquette composed of the out-of-plane A1 orbitals apical O pz, planar Cu d3z2−r2, and planar O p . This is in contras...

Strong-coupling Theory of High-temperature Superconductivity

High-temperature superconductivity has transformed the landscape of solid state science, leading to the discovery of new classes of materials, states of matter, and concepts. However, despite being over a quarter of a century since its discovery, there is still no single accepted theory to explain its origin. This book presents one approach, the strong-coupling or bipolaron theory, which propos...

Half-Skyrmion theory for high-temperature superconductivity

We review the half-Skyrmion theory for copper-oxide high-temperature superconductivity. In the theory, doped holes create a half-Skyrmion spin texture which is characterized by a topological charge. The formation of the half-Skyrmion is described in the single hole doped system, and then the half-Skyrmion excitation spectrum is compared with the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy results...

Theory and experiment in high-temperature superconductivity.