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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior of Superconducting SnH$_4$

Superconductivity 2023-09-14 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We studied chemical interaction of Sn with H2_2 by X-ray diffraction methods at pressures of 180-210 GPa. A previously unknown tetrahydride SnH4_4 with a cubic structure (fcc{fcc}) exhibiting superconducting properties below T{T}C_C = 72 K was obtained; the formation of a high molecular C2/m{C2/m}-SnH14_{14} superhydride and several lower hydrides, fcc{fcc} SnH2_2 and C2{C2}-Sn12_{12}H18_{18}, was also detected. The temperature dependence of critical current density J{J}C_C(T) in SnH4_4 yields the superconducting gap 2Δ\Delta(0) = 23 meV at 180 GPa. SnH4_4 has unusual behavior in strong magnetic fields: B,T{B,T}-linear dependences of magnetoresistance and the upper critical magnetic field B{B}C2_{C2}(T) \propto (T{T}C_C - T{T}). The latter contradicts the Wertheimer-Helfand-Hohenberg model developed for conventional superconductors. Along with this, the temperature dependence of electrical resistance of fcc{fcc} SnH4_4 in non-superconducting state exhibits a deviation from what is expected for phonon-mediated scattering described by the Bloch-Gr\"uneisen model, and is beyond the framework of the Fermi liquid theory. Such anomalies occur for many superhydrides, making them much closer to cuprates than previously believed.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06339,
  title  = {Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior of Superconducting SnH$_4$},
  author = {Ivan A. Troyan and Dmitrii V. Semenok and Anna G. Ivanova and Andrey V. Sadakov and Di Zhou and Alexander G. Kvashnin and Ivan A. Kruglov and Oleg A. Sobolevskiy and Marianna V. Lyubutina and Dmitry S. Perekalin and Toni Helm and Stanley W. Tozer and Maxim Bykov and Alexander F. Goncharov and Vladimir M. Pudalov and Igor S. Lyubutin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06339},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Additional acknowledgments are made, one more co-author has been added, equations of the Talantsev-Tallon model have been added and clarified. They were used to obtain the superconducting gap from the V-I characteristics. We also added cif files of tin hydrides to SI

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