Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
2008, 73, 795-810
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20080795
Aspects of Electronic Structure Instability in Search for New Superconductors: Superconducting Boride at Liquid Nitrogen Temperature?
Pavol Baňackýa,b
a Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Physics Division, Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina CH2, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
b S-Tech a.s., Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract
It has been shown that electron-phonon coupling in superconductors induces temperature-dependent electronic structure instability which is related to fluctuation of analytic critical point of some bands across the Fermi level. The band fluctuation results in a considerable reduction of chemical potential and to breakdown of the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approximation. At critical temperature Tc, superconducting system undergoes transition from the adiabatic electronic ground state into the antiadiabatic state at broken symmetry, which is stabilized due to the effect of nuclear dynamics. This effect is absent in non-superconducting compounds. In a good agreement with the experimental Tc of superconducting state transition, the critical temperature of the adiabatic ↔ antiadiabatic state transition has been calculated for three different superconductors. Two hypothetical compounds, LiB and ZnB2, are predicted to be potential superconductors with Tc about 17 and 77.5 K, respectively.
Keywords: Antiadiabatic state; Nonadiabatic electron-phonon interactions; Superconductors.
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