It is important to understand the phase diagram of electronic states in the CuO2 plane to clarify the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. We investigate the ground state of electronic models with strong correlation by employing the optimization variational Monte Carlo method. We consider the two-dimensional Hubbard model as well as the three-band [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] model. We use the improved wave function that takes account of inter-site electron correlation to go beyond the Gutzwiller wave function. The ground state energy is lowered considerably, which now gives the best estimate of the ground state energy for the two-dimensional Hubbard model. The many-body effect plays an important role as an origin of spin correlation and superconductivity in correlated electron systems. We investigate the competition between the antiferromagnetic state and superconducting state by varying the Coulomb repulsion [Formula: see text], the band parameter [Formula: see text] and the electron density [Formula: see text] for the Hubbard model. We show phase diagrams that include superconducting and antiferromagnetic phases. We expect that high-temperature superconductivity occurs near the boundary between antiferromagnetic phase and superconducting one. Since the three-band [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] model contains many-band parameters, high-temperature superconductivity may be more likely to occur in the [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] model than in single-band models.
The phase diagram of cuprate high-temperature superconductors is investigated on the basis of the three-band d − p model. We use the optimization variational Monte Carlo method, where improved many-body wave functions have been proposed to make the ground-state wave function more precise. We investigate the stability of the antiferromagnetic state by changing the band parameters such as the hole number, level difference Δ d p between d and p electrons and transfer integrals. We show that the antiferromagnetic correlation weakens when Δ d p decreases and the pure d -wave superconducting phase may exist in this region. We present phase diagrams including antiferromagnetic and superconducting regions by varying the band parameters. The phase diagram obtained by changing the doping rate x contains antiferromagnetic, superconducting and also phase-separated phases. We propose that high-temperature superconductivity will occur near the antiferromagnetic boundary in the space of band parameters.
The phase diagram of cuprate high-temperature superconductors is investigated on the basis of the three-band d-p model. We use the optimization variational Monte Carlo method, where improved many-body wave functions have been proposed to make the ground-state wave function more precise. We investigate the stability of antiferromagnetic state by changing the band parameters such as the hole number, level difference
Δdp between
d and
p electrons and transfer integrals. We show that the antiferromagnetic correlation weakens when
Δdp decreases and the pure
d-wave superconducting phase may exist in this region. We present phase diagrams including antiferromagnetic and superconducting regions by varying the band parameters. The phase diagram obtained by changing the doping rate
x contains antiferromagnetic, superconducting and also phase-separated phases. We propose that high-temperature superconductivity will occur near the antiferromagnetic boundary in the space of band parameters.