Abstract
The electronic states of the halo-oxocuprate and oxycarbonate superconductors are examined by means of the ionic and cluster models. The oxycarbonates examined contain the CO3 group on one side of the CuO2 plane. The superconducting critical temperature Tc is found to be correlated with the stability of the Zhang-Rice local singlet in the CuO2 plane. The stability is generally determined by two factors: (1) the energy-level separation between apical ion and in-plane oxygen and (2) the hybridization between apical pz and in-plane orbitals. The former is dominant for the oxycarbonates. It is also found that the CO3 group has no effect on the stabilization. For the halo-oxocuprates, the latter is crucial to stabilize the singlet.
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