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Upper limit for superconducting transition temperature in Eliashberg-McMillan theory

Superconductivity 2025-04-15 v2

Abstract

We present simple qualitative estimates for the maximal superconducting transition temperature, which may be achieved due to electron - phonon coupling in Eliashberg-McMillan theory. It is shown that in the limit of very strong coupling the upper limit for transition temperature is determined in fact by a combination of atomic constants and density of conduction electrons.

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@article{arxiv.2407.03602,
  title  = {Upper limit for superconducting transition temperature in Eliashberg-McMillan theory},
  author = {M. V. Sadovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03602},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

2 pages, minor typos corrected