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A realistic many-body Hamiltonian for the cuprate superconductors should include both copper d and oxygen p states, hopping matrix elements between them, and Coulomb energies, both on-site and inter-site. We have developed a novel computational scheme for deriving the relevant parameters ab initio from a constrained occupation local density functional. The scheme includes numerical calculation of appropriate Wannier functions for the copper and oxygen states. Explicit parameter values are given for La2CuO4. These parameters are generally consistent with other estimates and with the observed superexchange energy. Secondly, we address whether this complicated multi-band Hamiltonian can be reduced to a simpler one with fewer basis states per unit cell. We propose a mapping onto a new two-band effective Hamiltonian with one copper d and one oxygen p derived state per unit cell. This mapping takes into account the large oxygen-oxygen hopping given by the ab initio calculations

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 1/1/1991
• Year: 1991
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COPPER OXIDES, ENERGY LEVELS, HAMILTONIAN FUNCTIONS, HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS, MANY BODY PROBLEM, ATOMIC STRUCTURE, COPPER, ELECTRON ORBITALS, LANTHANUM OXIDES, MIXED OXIDES, OXYGEN, Annett, James F., Mcmahan, A. K., Martin, Richard M

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