Nonadiabatic superconductivity in a Li-intercalated hexagonal boron nitride bilayer

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When considering a Li-intercalated hexagonal boron nitride bilayer (Li-hBN), the vertex corrections of electron-phonon interaction cannot be omitted. This is evidenced by the very high value of the ratio λωD/εF ≈ 0.46, where λ is the electron-phonon coupling constant, ωD is the Debye frequency, and εF represents the Fermi energy. Due to nonadiabatic effects, the phonon-induced superconducting state in Li-hBN is characterized by much lower values of the critical temperature (T LOVC C ∈ {19.1, 15.5, 11.8} K, for μ* ∈ {0.1, 0.14, 0.2}, respectively) than would result from calculations not taking this effect into account (T ME C∈ {31.9, 26.9, 21} K). From the technological point of view, the low value of T C limits the possible applications of Li-hBN. The calculations were carried out under the classic Migdal-Eliashberg formalism (ME) and the Eliashberg theory with lowest-order vertex corrections (LOVC). We show that the vertex corrections of higher order (λ3) lower the value of T LOVC C by a few percent.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Beilstein journal of nanotechnology - 11(2020) vom: 16., Seite 1178-1189

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Szewczyk, Kamila A [VerfasserIn]
Domagalska, Izabela A [VerfasserIn]
Durajski, Artur P [VerfasserIn]
Szczęśniak, Radosław [VerfasserIn]

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Critical temperature
Electron–phonon interaction
Journal Article
Li-hBN bilayer
Li-intercalated hexagonal boron nitride (Li-hBN)
Nonadiabatic superconductivity
Vertex corrections

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Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3762/bjnano.11.102

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NLM313953708