Structural and superconducting transition in selenium under high pressures

Details Structural and superconducting transition in selenium under high pressures Structural and superconducting transition in selenium under high pressures

2000-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011274v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.63.104516

First-principles calculations are performed for electronic structures of two high pressure phases of solid selenium, $\beta$-Po and bcc. Our calculation reproduces well the pressure-induced phase transition from $\beta$-Po to bcc observed in selenium. The calculated transition pressure is 30 GPa lower than the observed one, but the calculated pressure dependence of the lattice parameters agrees fairly well with the observations in a wide range of pressure. We estimate the superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ of both the $\beta$-Po and the bcc phases by calculating the phonon dispersion and the electron-phonon interaction on the basis of density-functional perturbation theory. The calculated $T_{\rm c}$ shows a characteristic pressure dependence, i.e. it is rather pressure independent in the $\beta$-Po phase, shows a discontinuous jump at the transition from $\beta$-Po to bcc, and then decreases rapidly with increasing pressure in the bcc phase.

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