Group T-12 is a contributor to a Laboratory-wide effort in high-temperature superconductor research. Our group has focused on electronic structure calculations of cuprate superconductors. The superconductors are modelled with clusters of atoms cut out of the solid. The clusters are then treated as molecules and standard techniques of quantum chemistry are applied in the elucidation of their electronic structure properties.
Representative publications:
"Rehybridization and pairing in the cuprates," R. L. Martin, Phys. Rev. B 54 (1996) R9647.
"Electronic localization in the cuprates," R. L. Martin, Phys. Rev. B 53 (1996) 15501.
"Nuclear quadrupole resonance spectrum of La2CuO4," R. L. Martin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 744.
People in T-12 working on this project include: