Theory of Copper Oxide Superconductors

• Main Authors: Kamimura, Hiroshi (Author), Ushio, Hideki (Author), Matsuno, Shunichi (Author), Hamada, Tsuyoshi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Physics.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.

This is an advanced textbook for graduate students and researchers wishing to learn about high temperature superconductivity in copper oxides, in particular the Kamimura-Suwa (K-S) model. Because a number of models have been proposed since the discovery of high temperature superconductivity by Bedno...

Table of Contents:

• Experimental Results of High Temperature Superconducting Cuprates
• Brief Review of Models of High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates
• Cluster Models for Hole-Doped CuO6 Octahedron and CuO5 Pyramid
• MCSCF-CI Method: Its Application to a CuO6 Octahedron Embedded in LSCO
• Calculated Results of a Hole-Doped CuO5 Pyramid in YBa2Cu3O7??
• Electronic Structure of a CuO5 Pyramid in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+?
• The Kamimura—Suwa (K-S) Model: Electronic Structure of Underdoped Cuprates
• Exact Diagonalization Method to Solve the K—S Hamiltonian
• Mean-Field Approximation for the K—S Hamiltonian
• Calculated Results of Many-Electrons Band Structures and Fermi Surfaces
• Normal State Properties of La2?xSrxCuO4
• Electron—Phonon Interaction and Electron—Phonon Spectral Functions
• Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity.