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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Saddle-point pairing: An electronic mechanism for superconductivity
Abstract
It is shown that the interactions in a strongly correlated quasi-two-dimensional electron gas with the Fermi level lying at a saddle point (Van Hove singularity) in k can give rise to superconductivity by exchange of excitations with a characteristic low electronic energy scale E*. Application to cuprate superconductors shows that this mechanism along with a conventional electron-phonon interaction can explain the high Tcs and the anomalous behavior of the isotope shift as a function of doping. © 1992 The American Physical Society.