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Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) governs lattice dynamics, charge transport, and collective electronic phases in quantum materials. In several families of unconventional superconductors, including transition-metal dichalcogenides and kagome…

The strong coupling between lattice modes and charges which leads to the formation of charge density waves in materials such as the transition-metal dichalcogenides may also give rise to superconductivity in the same materials, mediated by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-29 Jasper van Wezel , Paul Nahai-Williamson , Siddarth S. Saxena

The Fe pnictide parent compound EuFe2As2 exhibits a strongly momentum dependent carrier dynamics around the hole pocket at the center of the Brillouin zone. The very different dynamics of electrons and holes cannot be explained solely by…

The phonon density-of-states of transition metal diborides TMB2 with TM = Ti, V, Ta, Nb and Y has been measured using the technique of inelastic neutron scattering. The experimental data are compared with ab initio density functional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Heid , B. Renker , H. Schober , P. Adelmann , D. Ernst , K. -P. Bohnen

We have studied the phonon density of states (PDOS) in LaFeAsO1-xFx with inelastic neutron scattering methods. The PDOS of the parent compound(x=0) is very similar to the PDOS of samples optimally doped with fluorine to achieve the maximum…

Phonon-mediated superconductivity is conventionally thought to be capped at a transition temperature $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ no larger than roughly one-tenth of the phonon frequency $\Omega$, a bound rooted in the breakdown of Migdal-Eliashberg…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 John Sous

This letter reports the unexpectedly strong electron-phonon coupling (EPC) and the highest $T_c$ record ($\approx$ 38 K) among the MXenes revealed in the 2H-Mo$_2$N under biaxial stress. At first, its excellent mechanical properties are…

Recent work on an electron-phonon model in two-dimensions is reviewed and some new results are presented. We utilize both Quantum Monte Carlo simulations and Migdal-Eliashberg theory. The type of electron-ion coupling considered is on-site.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-29 F. Marsiglio

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Prabhakar P. Singh

Nickelate superconductors are outstanding materials with intriguing analogies with the cuprates. These analogies suggest that their superconducting mechanism may be unconventional, although this fundamental question is currently under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-24 Q. N. Meier , J. B. de Vaulx , F. Bernardini , A. S. Botana , X. Blase , V. Olevano , A. Cano

Coupling between electrons and phonons (lattice vibrations) drives the formation of the electron pairs responsible for conventional superconductivity. The lack of direct evidence for electron-phonon coupling in the electron dynamics of the…

In the present paper, we analyze the properties of the unbalanced superconducting state on a square lattice with the constant value of the electron-phonon coupling function. We conduct our analysis in the framework of the Eliashberg…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-22 Kamila A. Szewczyk , Radosław Szczȩśniak , Dominik Szczȩśniak

We report inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the phonon density-of-states in Mg11B2, which has a superconducting transition at 39.2 K. The acoustic phonons extend in energy to 36 meV, and there are highly dispersive optic branches…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Osborn , E. A. Goremychkin , A. I. Kolesnikov , D. G. Hinks

Motivated by recent reports of pressure-induced superconductivity in bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$, we present a comprehensive investigation into the structural, electronic, magnetic, and phonon properties of this compound across a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-12 Cong Zhu , Bin Li , Yuxiang Fan , Chuanhui Yin , Junjie Zhai , Jie Cheng , Shengli Liu , Zhixiang Shi

Density-functional calculations of the phonon spectrum and electron-phonon coupling in MgB$_2$ are presented. The $E_{2g}$ phonons, which involve in-plane B displacements, couple strongly to the $p_{x,y}$ electronic bands. The isotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Amy Y. Liu , I. I. Mazin , Jens Kortus

To understand the role of electron-phonon interaction in superconducting MgCNi$_{3}$ we have performed density functional based linear response calculations of its lattice dynamical properties. A large coupling constant $% \lambda $= 1.51…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ignatov , S. Y. Savrasov , T. A. Tyson

We discuss the electronic structure, lattice dynamics and electron-phonon interaction of newly discovered superconductor LaO$_{0.5}$F$_{0.5}$BiS$_{2}$ using density functional based calculations. A strong Fermi surface nesting at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Xiangang Wan , Hang-Chen Ding , Sergey Y. Savrasov , Chun-Gang Duan

Unconventional superconductivity is commonly linked to electronic pairing mechanisms, since it is believed that the conventional electron-phonon interaction (EPI) cannot cause sign-changing superconducting gap symmetries. Here, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Fabian Schrodi , Peter M. Oppeneer , Alex Aperis

The crystal structure and lattice phonons of (BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 superconducting \beta-phase are computed and analyzed by the Quasi Harmonic Lattice Dynamics (QHLD) method. Whereas the crystal structure and its temperature and pressure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-26 A. Girlando , M. Masino , G. Visentini , R. G. Della Valle , A. Brillante , E. Venuti

In cuprate superconductors, a pronounced maximum of superconducting Tc is observed in compounds that have an in-plane Cu-O distance close to ~1.92 Angstroms. On the other hand, direct measurements of the electron-phonon coupling lambda as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-28 Dragan Mihailovic