Ab initio investigation of BCS-type superconductivity in LuNi2 B2 C -type superconductors
dc.contributor.author | Tütüncü, HM | |
dc.contributor.author | Uzunok, HY | |
dc.contributor.author | Karaca, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Srivastava, G.P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Özer, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Uur, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-01T15:48:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-08-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ab initio pseudopotential calculations have been made to calculate the structural, electronic, vibrational, and superconducting properties of the borocarbide superconductors RM2B2C(R=Lu,La,Y;M=Ni,Pd,Pt). Using the electronic and vibrational spectra, the average electron-phonon coupling parameter is calculated to be 0.78, 0.83, 0.96, and 1.48 for LaPt2B2C, LuNi2B2C, YPt2B2C, and YPd2B2C, respectively. From a detailed spectral analysis throughout the irreducible Brillouin zone (IBZ), we found that the highest contribution to the electron-phonon coupling parameter for these materials comes from the acoustic and low-frequency optical modes characterized with anomalous dispersion, instead of the A1g optical-phonon mode claimed in previous studies. Using the calculated electron-phonon coupling parameter values, the superconducting critical temperatures for LaPt2B2C, LuNi2B2C, YPt2B2C, and YPd2B2C are found to be 10.40, 15.94, 11.30, and 20.60 K, respectively, which are in good accordance with their experimental values of 10.50, 16.10, 10.00, and 21.00 K. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) (Project No. MFAG-114F192). Some of the calculations for this project were carried out using the computing facilities on the Intel Nehalem (i7) cluster (ceres) in the School of Physics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 92, Iss. 5, 1 August 2015 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054510 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20352 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054510 | en_GB |
dc.rights | This is the final version of the article. Available from American Physical Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.title | Ab initio investigation of BCS-type superconductivity in LuNi2 B2 C -type superconductors | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-01T15:48:45Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1098-0121 | |
dc.description | Journal Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1550-235X | |
dc.identifier.journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics | en_GB |