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Sandwich Excitons as the Mechanism of High-TC Superconductivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Brent A. Richert
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado“Springs, CO 80840
Ewald Schachinger
Affiliation:
Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Roland E. Allen
Affiliation:
Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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Abstract

One potential objection to virtual “sandwich excitons” as a pairing mechanism is that the transition densities may not be large enough to overcome the inherent disadvantage of a large energy denominator . In model calculations, we find that some of the transition densities and matrix elements can be large even if the dielectric constant is sizeable for, e.g., LaO excitons in La2‐xSrxCuO4

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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