Using full-potential, density-functional-based methods we have studied electron-phonon interaction in ZrB2 and TaB2 in P6/mmm crystal structure. Our results for phonon density of states and Eliashberg function show that the electron-phonon coupling in ZrB2 is much weaker than in TaB2. In particular, we find that the average electron-phonon coupling constant \lambda is equal to 0.14 for ZrB2 and 0.72 for TaB2. The solutions of the isotropic Eliashberg gap equation indicate no superconductivity for ZrB2 but a superconducting transition temperature Tc of around 12 K for TaB2 with \mu* ~0.16.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302134,
title = {Theoretical Study of Electron-Phonon Interaction in ZrB2 and TaB2},
author = {Prabhakar P. Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302134},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Increased q points from 12 to 28, added 3 figs and a section on convergence analysis