Large Ca Isotope Effect in CaC6

Details Large Ca Isotope Effect in CaC6 Large Ca Isotope Effect in CaC6

2006-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604642v1

Phys. Rev. B 75, 14509 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

11 pages including 2 Figures

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We have measured the Ca isotope effect in the newly discovered superconductor CaC6. The isotope effect coefficient is 0.50(7). If one assumes that this material is a conventional electron-phonon coupled superconductor, this result shows that the superconductivity is dominated by coupling of the electrons by Ca phonon modes and that C phonons contribute very little. Thus, in contrast to MgB2, where phonons in the B layers are responsible for the superconductivity, in CaC6 the phonons are primarily modes of the intercalated Ca.

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