STUDY OF SUPERCONDUCTING STATE PARAMETERS OF TRANSITION METALS BINARY ALLOYS BY A PSEUDOPOTENTIAL APPROACH

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 217-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADITYA M. VORA

In the present article, we have reported the theoretical study of the superconducting state parameters (SSP) viz. electron–phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, transition temperature TC, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength N0V of a 3d-transition metal-based binary alloys using Ashcroft's empty core (EMC) model potential. Five local field correction functions proposed by Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru-Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) are used in the present investigation to study the screening influence on the aforesaid properties. A considerable influence of various exchange and correlation functions on λ and μ* is found from the present study. The present results of the SSP are found in qualitative agreement with the available experimental data wherever they exist.

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (31n32) ◽  
pp. 6001-6017 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. N. GAJJAR ◽  
A. M. VORA ◽  
MINAL H. PATEL ◽  
A. R. JANI

The study of the superconducting state parameters (SSP) viz. electron–phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, transition temperature T C , isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength N0V of In-based binary alloys In 1-x Na x, In 1-x Mg x, In 1-x Zn x, In 1-x Tl x, In 1-x Sn x, In 1-x Pb x and In 1-x Bi x have been made extensively in the present work using a model potential. To explain electron–ion interaction pseudo-alloy-atom (PAA) model is applied for the first time instead of Vegard's Law. A considerable influence of various exchange and correlation functions on λ and μ* is found from the present study. It is also concluded that T C strongly depends on the value of the effective valence Z* of binary alloys.


2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (29) ◽  
pp. 2881-2892 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADITYA M. VORA

The theoretical study of the superconducting state parameters (SSP) viz. electron–phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, transition temperature TC, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength NoV of 4d-transition metals based binary alloys have been made extensively in the present work using a model potential formalism for the first time. In the present computation, the use of pseudo-alloy-atom model (PAA) is proposed and found successful. A considerable influence of various exchange and correlation functions on λ and μ* is found from the present study. The present results of the SSP are found in qualitative agreement with the available experimental data wherever they exist.


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (12n13) ◽  
pp. 573-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. N. GAJJAR ◽  
A. M. VORA ◽  
A. R. JANI

A recently proposed model potential is used to study the superconducting state parameters viz. electron-phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, transition temperature TC, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength NOV of 40 metallic glasses of simple, non-simple as well as transition metals. The advanced screening function due to Sarkar et al. has been employed to include the exchange and correlation effects. Instead of Vegard's law, the use of pseudo-alloy-atom model in the investigation of superconducting state properties of metallic glasses is proposed and found successfully.


Open Physics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Vora

AbstractThe theoretical computation of the superconducting state parameters (SSP) viz; electron-phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ *, transition temperature T c, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength N O V of some monovalent (Cu and Au), divalent (Ca, Sr, Ba, αHg, βHg and Ra) and polyvalent (Lu, Rh, Sc, Y, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Ac, Th, Hf, Ru, Os, Ir, V, Ta, Pa, Cr, Mo, U, Re, Np and Pu) amorphous metals based on the different groups of the periodic table have been carried out for the first time using the well known Ashcroft’s empty core (EMC) model pseudopotential. Herein, we have employed five different types of local field correction functions proposed by Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru-Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) to study the exchange and correlation effects on the present investigations. A very strong influence of all the exchange and correlation functions have been observed in the present study. Our results are in fair agreement with documented theoretical as well as experimental data. A strong dependency of the SSP of amorphous metals on the valency Z was found.


Open Physics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Vora

AbstractAshcroft’s empty core (EMC) model potential is used to study the superconducting state parameters (SSPs) viz. electron-phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, transition temperature T C, isotope effect exponent αand effective interaction strength N O V of some binary metallic glasses based on the superconducting (S), conditional superconducting (S’) and non-superconducting (NS) elements of the periodic table. Five local field correction functions proposed by Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru-Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) are used for the first time with EMC potential in the present investigation to study the screening influence on the aforesaid properties. The T C obtained from the H-local field correction function are in excellent agreement with available theoretical or experimental data. In the present computation, the use of the pseudo-alloy-atom model (PAA) was proposed and found successful. Present work results are in qualitative agreement with such earlier reported experimental values which confirm the superconducting phase in all metallic glasses. A strong dependency of the SSPs of the metallic glasses on the valence ‘Z’ is identified.


Open Physics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Vora

AbstractThe theoretical investigations of the superconducting state parameters (SSP) viz. electron-phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, transition temperature T C, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength N O V of six binary La100-C GaC (C = 16, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28 at. %) metallic glasses have been reported using Ashcroft’s empty core (EMC) model potential for the first time. Five local field correction functions proposed by Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru-Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) are used in the present investigation to study the screening influence on the aforesaid properties. It is observed that the electron-phonon coupling strength λ and the transition temperature T C are quite sensitive to the selection of the local field correction functions, whereas the Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength N O V show weak dependences on the local field correction functions. The T C obtained from H-local field correction function are found in qualitative agreement with available experimental data and show almost linear nature with the concentration (C) of ‘Ga’ element. A linear T C equation is proposed by fitting the present outcomes for H-local field correction function, which is in conformity with other results for the experimental data. Also, the present results are found to be in qualitative agreement with other such earlier reported data, which confirms the superconducting phase in the metallic glasses.


2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya M. Vora

STUDY OF SUPERCONDUCTING EFFECTS IN TRANSITION METALS BASED BINARY ALLOYS USING PSEUDOPOTENTIAL THEORYSuperconducting state parameters (SSP) (viz., electron-phonon coupling strength λ, Coulomb pseudopotentialμ*transition temperatureTC, isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strengthNOV) of transition metals based binary alloys are studied using - for the first time - a potential formalism with a pseudoatom-alloy model. In the study, noticeable influence of various exchange and correlation functions on λ andμ*has been revealed. The SSP results are found to be in a qualitative agreement with the available experimental data.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1443-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADITYA M. VORA

Theoretical computation of the pressure dependence of superconducting state parameters of binary Mg 70 Zn 30 is reported using model potential formalism. Explicit expressions have been derived for the volume dependence of the electron–phonon coupling strength λ and the Coulomb pseudopotential μ* considering the variation of Fermi momentum kF and Debye temperature θD with volume. The well-known Ashcroft's empty core (EMC) model pseudopotential and five different types of the local field correction functions viz. Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru–Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) have been used for obtaining pressure dependence of transition temperature TC and the logarithmic volume derivative Φ of the effective interaction strength N0V for metallic glass. It has been observed that the μ* curve shows a linear nature and an elbow is formed in the Φ graph.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (32) ◽  
pp. 1950394
Author(s):  
Hiral Patel ◽  
Priyank Kumar ◽  
N. K. Bhatt ◽  
P. R. Vyas ◽  
V. B. Gohel

A comprehensive and systematic study of superconducting state parameters (SSPs) of Bi-based binary alloys of the form [Formula: see text] has been carried out in the framework of pseudopotential theory at different concentrations ([Formula: see text]) of impurity atom-[Formula: see text] in host atom Bi which varies from 0 to 1. Impurity atom [Formula: see text] has been replaced by In, Tl, Sb and Pb to form four alloy systems. The density-based local form of the pseudopotential proposed by Fiolhais et al. has been used in this study to compute SSPs such as electron–phonon coupling strength ([Formula: see text]), Coulomb pseudopotential ([Formula: see text]), transition temperature ([Formula: see text]), effective interaction strength ([Formula: see text] and isotopic effect parameter ([Formula: see text]) of Bi-based binary alloy systems. Computed results of SSPs of alloys under study are in good agreement with available experimental and other theoretical results. In order to investigate the effect of pressure on SSPs of alloys under study, a theoretical calculation of SSPs as a function of compressed volume is reported. The volume dependence of Debye temperature has been accounted by using Debye–Gruneisen model which involves the Gruneisen parameter. Thus, to describe the effect of pressure on SSPs accurately, the value of Gruneisen parameter should be as accurate as possible. But reported results of Gruneisen parameter in the literature are highly scattered. Due to this reason, we have used two sets of Gruneisen parameter obtained by different methods to understand its role in the computation of SSPs as a function of compressed volume. Further, critical volumes for all alloys at different concentration have been predicted at which electron–phonon coupling strength and Coulomb pseudopotential are equal ([Formula: see text]). At critical volume, superconductivity quenches where transition temperature, [Formula: see text], and effective interaction strength, [Formula: see text], become zero. It is observed that critical volumes predicted by all approaches used in this study are in excellent agreement with each other.


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