Ab initio calculation of the superconducting transition temperature

1979 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gl�tzel ◽  
D. Rainer ◽  
H. R. Schober
JETP Letters ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 548-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. Maksimov ◽  
M. V. Magnitskaya ◽  
S. V. Ebert ◽  
S. Yu. Savrasov

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 5830
Author(s):  
Andrzej Ślebarski ◽  
Maciej M. Maśka

We investigated the effect of enhancement of superconducting transition temperature Tc by nonmagnetic atom disorder in the series of filled skutterudite-related compounds (La3M4Sn13, Ca3Rh4Sn13, Y5Rh6Sn18, Lu5Rh6Sn18; M= Co, Ru, Rh), where the atomic disorder is generated by various defects or doping. We have shown that the disorder on the coherence length scale ξ in these nonmagnetic quasiskutterudite superconductors additionally generates a non-homogeneous, high-temperature superconducting phase with Tc⋆>Tc (dilute disorder scenario), while the strong fluctuations of stoichiometry due to increasing doping can rapidly increase the superconducting transition temperature of the sample even to the value of Tc⋆∼2Tc (dense disorder leading to strong inhomogeneity). This phenomenon seems to be characteristic of high-temperature superconductors and superconducting heavy fermions, and recently have received renewed attention. We experimentally documented the stronger lattice stiffening of the inhomogeneous superconducting phase Tc⋆ in respect to the bulk Tc one and proposed a model that explains the Tc⋆>Tc behavior in the series of nonmagnetic skutterudite-related compounds.


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