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Superconducting systems based on attractive electron-phonon interactions are the ones which are best understood at a fundamental level. They are well described using Eliashberg theory, which, unlike BCS theory, explicitly takes into account…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-28 Ingvar Zappacosta , Matthew Houtput , Jacques Tempere

Two simple bounds on the $T_c$ of conventional, phonon-mediated superconductors are derived within the framework of Eliashberg theory in the strong coupling regime. The first bound is set by the total electron-phonon coupling available…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-07 Jonathan E. Moussa , Marvin L. Cohen

We investigate deep learning autoencoders for the unsupervised recognition of phase transitions in physical systems formulated on a lattice. We focus our investigation on the 2-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model and then test the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-15 Constantia Alexandrou , Andreas Athenodorou , Charalambos Chrysostomou , Srijit Paul

In recent years, the quest for high critical-temperature superconductors has increasingly focused on metal and molecular hydrides, which have demonstrated potential for superconductivity at or near room temperature under extremely high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-10 Tomas J. Escamilla , Chumin Wang

The standard Eliashberg - McMillan theory of superconductivity is essentially based on the adiabatic approximation. Here we present some simple estimates of electron - phonon interaction within Eliashberg - McMillan approach in non -…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-03 M. V. Sadovskii

Based on BCS model with the external pair potential formulated in a work Grigorishin (2017) [1], analogous model with electron-phonon coupling and Coulomb coupling is proposed. The generalized Eliashberg equations in the regime of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-14 Konstantin V. Grigorishin

The variation of the superconducting critical temperature Tc as a function of x in the diboride Mg1-xAlxB2 has been studied in the framework of the two-bands Eliashberg theory and traditional phonon coupling mechanism. We have solved the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 G. A. Ummarino , R. S. Gonnelli , S. Massidda , A. Bianconi

We used the superconductors in the SuperCon database to construct element vectors and then perform unsupervised learning of their critical temperatures (T$_c$). Only the chemical composition of superconductors was used in this procedure. No…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-15 B. Roter , S. V. Dordevic

Eliashberg's foundational theory of superconductivity is based on the application of Migdal's approximation, which states that vertex corrections to first order electron-phonon scattering are negligible if the ratio between phonon and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-26 Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

We combine the fully anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory with electron-phonon interpolation based on maximally-localized Wannier functions, in order to perform reliable and highly accurate calculations of the anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 E. R. Margine , F. Giustino

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 M. V. Sadovskii

First principles computational methods can predict the superconducting critical temperature $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ of conventional superconductors through the electron-phonon spectral function. Full convergence of this quantity requires Brillouin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-27 Kieran Bozier , Kang Wang , Bartomeu Monserrat , Chris J. Pickard

Superconducting properties of hypothetical simple hexagonal CaB2 are studied using the fully anisotropic Eliashberg formalism based on electronic and phononic structures and electron-phonon interactions which are obtained from ab initio…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-17 Hyoung Joon Choi , Steven G. Louie , Marvin L. Cohen

Superconductors have been among the most fascinating substances, as the fundamental concept of superconductivity as well as the correlation of critical temperature and superconductive materials have been the focus of extensive investigation…

We present a study of the superconducting transition in MgB2 using the ab-initio pseudopotential density functional method and the fully anisotropic Eliashberg equation. Our study shows that the anisotropic Eliashberg equation, constructed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-05 Hyoung Joon Choi , David Roundy , Hong Sun , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

Near a quantum critical point (QCP) in a metal, strong Fermion-Fermion interactions mediated by soft collective bosons give rise to two competing phenomena: non-Fermi liquid behavior and superconductivity that deviates from conventional BCS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Ahmed Elezaby , Artem Abanov

The standard Eliashberg theory of superconductivity is studied, in which the effective electron-electron interactions are mediated by generally dispersive phonons, with Eliashberg spectral function $\alpha^2 F(\omega)\geq 0$ that is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , Boris L. Altshuler , Emil A. Yuzbashyan

We reconsider the long-standing problem of the effect of spin fluctuations on the critical temperature and isotope effect in a phonon-mediated superconductor. Although the general physics of the interplay between phonons and paramagnons had…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 O. V. Dolgov , I. I. Mazin , A. A. Golubov , S. Y. Savrasov , E. G. Maksimov

Migdal-Eliashberg theory of boson-mediated superconductivity contains a $\sqrt{\lambda}$ divergence in the critical temperature $T_c$ for strong electron-boson coupling $\lambda$. In the conventional Migdal-Eliashberg theory, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-21 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov , Rufus Boyack

A theory of electron-phonon mediated superconductivity requires the knowledge of full phonon spectrum to calculate superconducting transition temperature, T$_c$. However, there is no experimental technique which can measure phonon spectrum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-04 E. F. Talantsev