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Screened superexchange mechanism for superconductivity applied to cuprates

Superconductivity 2026-01-14 v2

Abstract

In 1965, Kohn and Luttinger published a note revealing that dynamical screening of the repulsive Coulomb interaction leads under certain conditions to an effective attraction necessary for the formation of Cooper pairs. We propose such a formalism adapted to the cuprates where the screening arises from the superexchange dynamics of virtual holes in the oxygen orbitals of the CuO2Cu O_2 plane. Using an adequate Schrieffer-Wolff transformation, the basic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) method and the {\it ab initio} data on orbitals (energy, hopping, interaction), we derive some predictions for the temperature-doping phase diagram (pseudo-gap, strange metal, antiferromagnetism, superconducting and normal states) and for the doping dependant band energy spectrum in semi-quantitative agreement with observations.

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@article{arxiv.2507.08750,
  title  = {Screened superexchange mechanism for superconductivity applied to cuprates},
  author = {Patrick Navez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.08750},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures