Electron-phonon superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric LaNiC$_2$: first principles calculations

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2009-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0511v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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We report first principles calculations of the electronic structure and electron-phonon coupling in the non-centrosymmetric superconductor LaNiC$_2$. These show that the material is a conventional electron-phonon superconductor with intermediate coupling. There are large contributions to the coupling by two low frequency C non-bond-stretching modes, one of which has strong Kohn anomalies. Since LaNiC$_2$ lacks inversion symmetry, the pairing is of dominant s-wave type with some mixture of p-wave character. This will give exponential decay in the specific heat.

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