Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2006-11-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
16 pages, 3 figures and 1 table. To appear in `Two Decades of High Temperature Superconductivity', a special issue of the Iran
Scientific paper
Resonating valence bond states in a doped Mott insulator was proposed to explain superconductivity in cuprates in January 1987 by Anderson. A challenging task then was proving existence of this unconventional mechanism and a wealth of possibilities, with a rigor acceptable in standard condensed matter physics, in a microscopic theory and develop suitable many body techniques. Shortly, a paper by Anderson, Zou and us (BZA) undertook this task and initiated a program. Three key papers that followed, shortly, essentially completed the program, as far as superconductivity is concerned: i) a gauge theory approach by Anderson and us, that went beyond mean field theory ii) Kotliar's d-wave solution in BZA theory iii) improvement of a renormalized Hamiltonian in BZA theory, using a Gutzwiller approximation by Zhang, Gros, Rice and Shiba. In this article I shall focus on the merits of BZA and gauge theory papers. They turned out to be a foundation for subsequent developments dealing with more aspects that were unconventional - d-wave order parameter with nodal Bogoliubov quasi particles, Affleck-Marston's $\pi$-flux condensed spin liquid phase, unconventional spin-1 collective mode at $(\pi,\pi)$, and other fascinating developments. Kivelson, Rokhsar and Sethna's idea of holons and their bose condensation found expression in the slave boson formalism and lead to results similar to BZA program. Further, t-J model is a good minimal model around optimal doping, where RVB superconductivity is also at its best.
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