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Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

Linear response methods are applied to identify the increase in electron-phonon coupling in elemental yttrium that is responsible for its high superconducting critical temperature Tc, which reaches nearly 20 K at 115 GPa. While the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. P. Yin , S. Y. Savrasov , W. E. Pickett

We calculated the superconductivity properties of alkali metals under high pressure using the results of band theory and the rigid-muffin-tin theory of Gaspari and Gyorffy. Our results suggest that at high pressures Lithium, Potassium,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Lei Shi , Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

Materials with graphene-like layers attract tremendous attention due to their electronic structures and superconducting properties. In this study, we synthesized LaP2 polycrystalline and observed a superconducting transition around 30 GPa.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-18 Mingxin Zhang , Cuiying Pei , Bangshuai Zhu , Qi Wang , Juefei Wu , Yanpeng Qi

We present a theoretical investigation on electron-phonon superconductivity of honeycomb MX$_2$ layered structures. Where X is one element of the group-IV (C, Si or Ge) and M an alkali or an alkaline-earth metal. Among the studied…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 José A. Flores-Livas , Antonio Sanna

The naturally weak spin-orbit coupling in Graphene can be largely enhanced by adatom deposition (e.g. Weeks et al. Phys. Rev. X 1, 021001 (2011)). However, the dynamics of the adatoms also induces a coupling between phonons and the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Jhih-Shih You , Daw-Wei Wang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The mechanism of heat transfer and the contribution of electron-phonon coupling to thermal conductance of a metal-semiconductor interface remains unclear in the present literature. We report ab initio simulations of a technologically…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Sridhar Sadasivam , Umesh V. Waghmare , Timothy S. Fisher

Insight into why superconductivity in pristine and doped monolayer graphene seems strongly suppressed has been central for the recent years' various creative approaches to realize superconductivity in graphene and graphene-like systems. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-12 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Justin W. Wells , Asle Sudbø

We used our developed AI search engine~(InvDesFlow) to perform extensive investigations regarding ambient stable superconducting hydrides. A cubic structure Li$_2$AuH$_6$ with Au-H octahedral motifs is identified to be a candidate. After…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Zhenfeng Ouyang , Bo-Wen Yao , Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

We perform a high-throughput screening on phonon-mediated superconductivity in ternary metal diboride structure with alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals. We find 17 ground states and 78 low-energy metastable phases. From fast…

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…

Using a first-principles approach we calculate the acoustic electron-phonon couplings in graphene for the transverse (TA) and longitudinal (LA) acoustic phonons. Analytic forms of the coupling matrix elements valid in the long-wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Kristen Kaasbjerg , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

Photoemission studies of graphene have resulted in a long-standing controversy concerning the strength of the experimental electron-phonon interaction in comparison with theoretical calculations. Using high-resolution angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 David A. Siegel , Choongyu Hwang , Alexi V. Fedorov , Alessandra Lanzara

Germanene has emerged as a novel two-dimensional material with various interesting properties and applications. Here we report the possibility of superconductivity in a stable potassium intercalated germanene compound, KGe$_2$, with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-09 Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik , Catherine Stampfl , Michael J. Ford

Electron-phonon coupling directly determines the stability of cooperative order in solids, including superconductivity, charge and spin density waves. Therefore, the ability to enhance or reduce electron-phonon coupling by optical driving…

It has been recently observed that the conventional electron-phonon mediated superconducting phase in graphene can be easily induced by doping its surface with the lihitum adatoms. Due to the emerging interest in this field of research we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-03 D. Szczȩśniak , A. P. Durajski , R. Szczȩśniak

Interlayer coupling can significantly influence the physical properties of layered transition metal compounds. The superconductivity in layered Mo$_2$C systems, belonging to the emergent family of MXene, has garnered considerable attention.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-22 Can Hong , Danhong Wu , Xi-Bo Li , Feipeng Zheng

Properties of graphene plasmons are greatly affected by their coupling to phonons. While such coupling has been routinely observed in both near-field and far-field graphene spectroscopy, the interplay between coupling strength and mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sang Hyun Park , Shengxuan Xia , Sang-Hyun Oh , Phaedon Avouris , Tony Low

Very recently a new family of layered materials, containing BiS2 planes was discovered to be superconducting at temperatures up to Tc=10 K, raising questions about the mechanism of superconductivity in these systems. Here, we present…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-12 Taner Yildirim