Electronic Structure Calculations of the Copper Oxygen Planes in Yba 2 Cu 3 O 6+δ , for 0 l δ l 1

Molecular ab initio seIf-consistent calculations on clusters simulating the copper-oxygen layers in the Yba2Cu3O6;δ are reported. The electronic structure, of this layer, was computed for different sets of values of the lattice parameters (a,b,c), according to their dependence on the oxygen stiochiometry. For the molecular orbitals , two different electronic occupations are considered, a closed shell and an open shell. For the open shell, an electron has been excited to the first virtual molecular orbital. It is found that this excited state has lower energy than the closed shell configuration for 0 < δ < 1. Molecular energies an electronic population are reported.