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Recent intensive experimental studies revealed that (Y,Lu)Ni$_2$B$_2$C is an anisotropic s-wave superconductor. In addition, its gap function possesses deep point minima, whose ratio of the gap anisotropy is more than 10. On the theoretical…
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We investigate three dimensional anharmonic phonons in tetrahedral symmetry and superconductivity mediated by these phonons. Three dimensional anharmonic phonon spectra are calculated directly by solving Schr\"odinger equation and the…
Phonon or electron mediated weak BCS attraction is enough to have high critical temperature if a van Hove anomaly is at work. This could apply to electron doped compounds and also to compounds with CuO$_2$ planes overdoped in holes, where…
The nature of the superconducting pairing state in the pristine phase of a compressed kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ under pressure is studied by the Migdal-Eliashberg formalism and density-functional theory calculations. We find that the…
The superconductor Nb$_3$Sn has a high critical temperature and high critical field, widely used for high-field superconducting magnets. In this work we investigate its microscopic electronic structure with $^{93}$Nb nuclear magnetic…
We report the discovery of superconductivity in Nb$_3$Pd$_{x}$Se$_7$ with a $x$-dependent superconducting transition-temperature as high as $T_c \simeq 2.1 $ K for $x \simeq0.7$ (middle point of the resistive transition). Needle-like single…
We present here the mathematical background of our approach, presented in Phys. Rev. B 86, 134526 (2012) regarding the gap function and symmetry for the noncentrosymmetric (NCS) superconductor $Li_2Pt_3B$. As revealed by the experiment,…
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