The extended Hubbard model for high temperature superconductors is studied for infinite systems in the strong coupling limit. The attractive interaction between added holes that has been noted for nearly degenerate copper and oxygen energy levels arises because the ground state is near an instability. Adding holes nucleates small regions of this unstable, infinitely compressible phase. Three distinct bound states of two holes occur in the strong coupling limit when double occupation is forbidden. In this limit, the attractive interaction results in phase separation rather than pairing when many holes are present. Perturbative calculations suggest that a pairing state is stable in a narrow parameter range as t increases.
The ground-state instabilities for a one-dimensional lattice system of electrons with onsite (Hubbard) and bond-site (hopping) interactions are analyzed in a perturbative approach. The zero temperature phase diagram at different band fillings is drawn; an attractive (repulsive) bond-site interaction favors the appearance of a superconductor state at low concentrations of electrons (holes). A comparison with the exact results for the Hubbard model and previous works for particular cases is also discussed.
Abstract Collective excitations in the superconducting state of an extended Hubbard model with an intrasite attraction are investigated using the random phase approximation method. The results for the energy of gapless excitations are consistent with the well known result of Anderson in the limit of weak attraction and the result of the perturbation theory (with respect to the band term) in the limit of strong attraction. Investigating the dependence of the excitation energy on the density of electrons in the band conditions are found of instability of the singlet superconducting state with respect to the disordered state (for attractive intersite interactions) and to the charge ordered superconducting state (for intersite repulsion).