Calculation of the four-spin cyclic exchange in cuprates

TL;DR

This paper analytically calculates the four-spin cyclic exchange in cuprates starting from the three-band Hubbard model, providing insights relevant to spin excitations and superconductivity.

Contribution

It introduces two methods for calculating the four-spin cyclic exchange, extending results to larger parameter ratios and connecting theory with experimental observations.

Findings

Analytical expressions for four-spin cyclic exchange in cuprates.

Extension of results to larger $t_{pd}/ riangle$ ratios.

Relevance to spin excitation splitting and superconducting temperature.

Abstract

Starting from the three-band Hubbard model for the cuprates, we calculate analytically the four-spin cyclic exchange in the limit of infinite on-site Coulomb repulsion and zero O-O hopping $t_{pp}$ using two methods: i) perturbation theory in $t_{pd}/\Delta$, where $t_{pd}$ is the Cu-O hopping and $\Delta$ the Cu-O charge transfer energy and ii) exact solution of a Cu$_4$O$_4$ plaquette. The latter method coincides with the first to order eight in $t_{pd}$ and permits to extend the results to $t_{pd}/\Delta$ of order one. The results are relevant to recent experimental and theoretical research that relate the splitting of certain spin excitations with $\Delta$ and the superconducting critical temperature.