Detailed electronic structure studies on superconducting MgB$_2$ and related compounds

Details Detailed electronic structure studies on superconducting MgB$_2$ and related compounds Detailed electronic structure studies on superconducting MgB$_2$ and related compounds

2001-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104253v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.224509

In order to understand the unexpected superconducting behavior of MgB$_2$ compound we have made electronic structure calculations for MgB$_2$ and closely related systems. Our calculated Debye temperature from the elastic properties indicate that the average phonon frequency is very large in MgB$_2$ compared with other superconducting intermetallics and the exceptionally high $T_c$ in this material can be explained through BCS mechanism only if phonon softening occurs or the phonon modes are highly anisotropic. We identified a doubly-degenerate quasi-two dimensional key-energy band in the vicinity of $E_{F}$ along $\Gamma$-A direction of BZ which play an important role in deciding the superconducting behavior of this material. Based on this result, we have searched for similar kinds of electronic feature in a series of isoelectronic compounds such as BeB$_2$, CaB$_2$, SrB$_2$, LiBC and MgB$_2$C$_2$ and found that MgB$_2$C$_2$ is one potential material from the superconductivity point of view. There are contradictory experimental results regarding the anisotropy in the elastic properties of MgB$_2$ ranging from isotropic, moderately anisotropic to highly anisotropic. In order to settle this issue we have calculated the single crystal elastic constants for MgB$_2$ by the accurate full-potential method and derived the directional dependent linear compressibility, Young's modulus, shear modulus and relevant elastic properties. We have observed large anisotropy in the elastic properties. Our calculated polarized optical dielectric tensor shows highly anisotropic behavior even though it possesses isotropic transport property. MgB$_2$ possesses a mixed bonding character and this has been verified from density of states, charge density and crystal orbital Hamiltonian population analyses.

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