Small Fermi energy, zero point fluctuations and nonadiabaticity in MgB$_2$

Details Small Fermi energy, zero point fluctuations and nonadiabaticity in MgB$_2$ Small Fermi energy, zero point fluctuations and nonadiabaticity in MgB$_2$

2004-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411346v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

to appear on Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.71.012501

Small Fermi energy effects are induced in MgB$_2$ by the low hole doping in the $\sigma$ bands which are characterized by a Fermi energy $E_{\rm F}^\sigma \sim 0.5$ eV. We show that, due to the particularly strong deformation potential relative to the $E_{2g}$ phonon mode, lattice fluctuations are reflected in strong fluctuations in the electronic band structure. Quantum fluctuations associated to the zero-point lattice motion are responsible for an uncertainty of the Fermi energy of the order of the Fermi energy itself, leading to the breakdown of the adiabatic principle underlying the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in MgB$_2$ even if $\omega_{\rm ph}/E_{\rm F} \sim 0.1-0.2$, where $\omega_{\rm ph}$ are the characteristic phonon frequencies. This amounts to a new nonadiabatic regime, which could be relevant to other unconventional superconductors.

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