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Copper oxides become superconductors rapidly upon do** with electron holes, suggesting a fundamental pairing instability. The Cooper mechanism explains normal superconductivity as an instability of a fermi-liquid state, but high-temperature superconductors derive from a Mott-insulator normal state, not a fermi liquid. We show that precocity to pair condensation with do** is a natural property of competing antiferromagnetism and d-wave superconductivity on a singly-occupied lattice, thus generalizing the Cooper instability to doped Mott insulators, with significant implications for the high-temperature superconducting mechanism.
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Guidry, M., Sun, Y. & Wu, Cl. Generalizing the Cooper-pair instability to doped Mott insulators. Front. Phys. China 5, 171–175 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-010-0006-x
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