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RQMP Research SeminarSuperconductivity in ultra-quantum matter, Part II: optimizing TcAndré-Marie TremblayUniversité de SherbrookeSuperconductors based on CuO2 conducting layers (cuprates) are still model systems for future generations of materials that could be superconducting at ambient pressure and temperature. They are appealing on a fundamental level because they are strongly quantum-fluctuating compounds with spin one-half carriers, interaction strength that is comparable to kinetic energy and a single band crossing the Fermi level. However, the single band crossing the Fermi level has both copper and oxygen orbital content. Since the interactions are mostly on the copper orbitals, the one-band Hubbard model, where the oxygen orbital content is neglected, has been very successful in explaining many of the observed properties. In this talk, it is shown that the oxygen orbital is a useful witness that gives insights into the mechanism of superconductivity in cuprates when it is taken into account. Using cluster generalizations of dynamical mean-field theory [1] we explain three apparently unrelated experiments that suggest how to optimize Tc in cuprates:
i) NMR experiments that show that Tc is optimized by maximizing
oxygen hole content [2] The unified explanation of these three experiments that is offered [5] also explains two other empirical observations as well as the mechanism for superconductivity in cuprates. The results suggest new avenues to discover compounds that superconduct at even higher temperature [6].
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Thursday, February 10th 2022, 10:30
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