Hole pairing in antiferromagnetically correlated layered oxides

Abstract

We have considered a two-band Hubbard model having interlaced Cu-3d(x₂-y₂) and O-2p(x, y) orbitals representing the CuO₂ square planes. Simple CuO₂-cluster calculation suggests that the additional holes created by doping stay mainly on oxygen. Motion of an oxygen hole interlacing with the antiferromagnetically correlated background of copper spins, creates a string of high energy spin configuration of finite length giving mass renormalization. Another hole of opposite spin can now anneal this string tension providing a triangular pairing potential for large pair momentum. The latter implies unusual Bose condensation of the wake-bound compact Bose-like pairs on a non-zero momentum shell. Effect of disorder favouring condensation at the mobility edge is pointed out.