Hierarchy of low-energy models of the electronic structure of cuprate HTSCs: The role of long-range spin-correlated hops

Val'kov, VV; Mitskan, VA; Dzebisashvili, DM; Barabanov, AF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, 44 (2):130-138; 10.1063/1.5020908 FEB 2018

It is shown that for the three-band Emery p–d-model that reflects the real structure of the CuO2-plane of high-temperature superconductors in the regime of strong electron correlations, it is possible to carry out a sequence of reductions to the effective models reproducing low-energy features of elementary excitation spectrum and revealing the spin-polaron nature of the Fermi quasiparticles. The first reduction leads to the spin-fermion model in which the subsystem of spin moments, coupled by the exchange interaction and localized on copper ions, strongly interacts with oxygen holes. The second reduction deals with the transformation from the spin-fermion model to the φ–d-exchange model. An important feature of this transformation is the large energy of the φ–d-exchange coupling, which leads to the formation of spin polarons. The use of this fact allows us to carry out the third reduction, resulting in the t̃ −J̃∗−I

-model. Its distinctive feature is the importance of spin-correlated hops as compared to the role of such processes in the commonly used t–J*-model derived from the Hubbard model. Based on the comparative analysis of the spectrum of Fermi excitations calculated for the obtained effective models of the CuO2-plane of high-temperature superconductors, the important role of the usually ignored long-range spin-correlated hops is determined.

 

 


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