Classifying Charge Carrier Interaction in Highly Compressed Elements and Silane

Abstract

Since the pivotal experimental discovery of near-room-temperature superconductivity (NRTS) in highly compressed sulphur hydride by Drozdov et al. (Nature 2015, 525, 73–76), more than a dozen binary and ternary hydrogen-rich phases exhibiting superconducting transitions above 100 K have been discovered to date. There is a widely accepted theoretical point of view that the primary mechanism governing the emergence of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich phases is the electron–phonon pairing. However, the recent analysis of experimental temperature-dependent resistance, R(T), in H3S, LaHx, PrH9 and BaH12 (Talantsev, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 2021, 34, accepted) showed that these compounds exhibit the dominance of non-electron–phonon charge carrier interactions and, thus, it is unlikely that the electron–phonon pairing is the primary mechanism for the emergence of superconductivity in these materials. Here, we use the same approach to reveal the charge carrier interaction in highly compressed lithium, black phosphorous, sulfur, and silane. We found that all these superconductors exhibit the dominance of non-electron–phonon charge carrier interaction. This explains the failure to demonstrate the high-Tc values that are predicted for these materials by first-principles calculations which utilize the electron–phonon pairing as the mechanism for the emergence of their superconductivity. Our result implies that alternative pairing mechanisms (primarily the electron–electron retraction) should be tested within the first-principles calculations approach as possible mechanisms for the emergence of superconductivity in highly compressed lithium, black phosphorous, sulfur, and silane.

The electron–phonon coupling constant and the Debye temperature in polyhydrides of thorium, hexadeuteride of yttrium, and metallic hydrogen phase III

“…In Table I we summarised all our results of application of Bloch-Grüneisen equation [37,38] for the condition of p =5 (Eqs. 1,4-6,8) [42,64,65,72]. It can be seen (Table I) that there is a good agreement between e-ph deduced by Eqs.…”

“…It also should be mentioned that in Ref. 67 we fitted the same (T) dataset to more advanced model [64,[69][70][71][72]:…”

“…ferromagnetic metals and materials [69,71], highly-compressed iron [69], and some other materials [64,69,72], were analysed by using advanced Bloch-Grüneisen equation (Eq. 12).…”

“…However, in this work, we analysed data in the assumption of pure electron-phonon scattering mechanism and, thus, we fixed p value to p = 5 and 𝑇 𝜔 → 𝑇 𝜃 (more details can be found elsewhere [64,[69][70][71][72]). Shang et al [68].…”

Non‐Fermi‐Liquid Behavior of Superconducting SnH4

“…The behavioral peculiarities of the electrical resistance of superhydrides have not received much attention since discovery of H 3 S, but many of them (e.g., Figures S20-S21, Supporting Information) show R(T) typical of strange metals in one pressure range, and the usual behavior of a Fermi liquid in another one. Amazingly, but the non-superconducting state of polyhydrides may turn out to be much closer to the properties of cuprate superconductors than previously thought, as Talantsev et al [80][81][82][83] predicted based on an analysis of the T С /T F ratio (T F is the Fermi temperature).…”