Superconductivity of metallic boron in MgB_2

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2001-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101446v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4656 (2001).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

several typos corrected, most importantly, units in the tables fixed and a missing zero in the expression for the resistivity

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4656

Boron in MgB_2 forms layers of honeycomb lattices with magnesium as a space filler. Band structure calculations indicate that Mg is substantially ionized, and the bands at the Fermi level derive mainly from B orbitals. Strong bonding with an ionic component and considerable metallic density of states yield a sizeable electron-phonon coupling. Using the rigid atomic sphere approximation and an analogy to Al, we estimate the coupling constant lambda to be of order 1. Together with high phonon frequencies, which we estimate via zone-center frozen phonon calculations to be between 300 and 700 cm^-1, this produces a high critical temperature, consistent with recent experiments reporting Tc=39 K (J. Akimitsu et al., to be published). Thus MgB_2 can be viewed as an analog of the long sought, but still hypothetical, superconducting metallic hydrogen.

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