Scaling of the transition temperature of hole-doped cuprate   superconductors with the charge-transfer energy
  We use first-principles calculations to extract two essential microscopic parameters, the charge-transfer energy and the inter-cell oxygen-oxygen hopping, which correlate with the maximum superconducting transition temperature $\Tcmax$ across the cuprates. We explore the superconducting state in the three-band model of the copper-oxygen planes using cluster Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. We find that the variation in the charge-transfer energy largely accounts for the empirical trend in $\Tcmax$, resolving a long-standing contradiction with theoretical calculations. 
C\'edric Weber and Chuck-Hou Yee and Kristjan Haule and Gabriel   Kotliar
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con