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A theoretical quest for high temperature superconductivity on the example of low-dimensional carbon structures.
Scientific Reports 2017 November 18
High temperature superconductivity does not necessarily require correlated electron systems with complex competing or coexisting orders. Instead, it may be achieved in a phonon-mediated classical superconductor having a high Debye temperature and large electronic density of states at the Fermi level in a material with light atoms and strong covalent bonds. Quasi-1D conductors seem promising due to the Van Hove singularities in their electronic density of states. In this sense, quasi-1D carbon structures are good candidates. In thin carbon nanotubes, superconductivity at ~15 K has been reported, and it is likely the strong curvature of the graphene sheet which enhances the electron-phonon coupling. We use an ab-initio approach to optimize superconducting quasi-1D carbon structures. We start by calculating a Tc of 13.9 K for (4.2) carbon nanotubes (CNT) that agrees well with experiments. Then we reduce the CNT to a ring, open the ring to form chains, optimize bond length and kink structure, and finally form a new type of carbon ring that reaches a Tc value of 115 K.
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