Systematic electronic structure in the cuprate parent state from quantum many-body simulations
- Resource Type
- Working Paper
- Authors
- Cui, Zhi-Hao; Zhai, Huanchen; Zhang, Xing; Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
- Source
- Science 377, 1192 (2022)
- Subject
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- Language
The quantitative description of correlated electron materials remains a modern computational challenge. We demonstrate a numerical strategy to simulate correlated materials at the fully ab initio level beyond the solution of effective low-energy models, and apply it to gain a detailed microscopic understanding across a family of cuprate superconducting materials in their parent undoped states. We uncover microscopic trends in the electron correlations and reveal the link between the material composition and magnetic energy scales via a many-body picture of excitation processes involving the buffer layers. Our work illustrates a path towards a quantitative and reliable understanding of more complex states of correlated materials at the ab initio many-body level.
Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, with Supplementary Materials