Fullerene superconductivity by short-range order instability

Szász, András

doi:10.1007/bf00617808

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“…Structural phase transition at a higher temperature precedes the charge density wave order occurring at a lower temperature in the SC state. Thus, the structural transition at T ≊ 260 K is followed by a series of steps in ρ(T ) with the one occurring at T ≊ 60 K. HTS in YBCO thin films and fullerenes was previously attributed to percolative conduction between clusters [61]. Metallic cluster-based SC tunneling in Josephsonlinked networks, for which the presence of electronic energy shells is similar to those in atoms and nuclei, is the key ingredient to finding room-T SC [62].…”

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Electric-field induced strange metal states and possible high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogenated graphitic fibers

Gheorghiu¹,

Ebbing²,

Haugan³

2020

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In this work, we have studied the effects from increasing the strength of the applied electric field on the charge transport of hydrogenated graphitic fibers. Resistivity measurements were carried out for direct currents in the nA -mA range and for temperatures from 1.9 K to 300 K. The high-temperature non-ohmic voltage-current dependence is well described by the nonlinear random resistor network model applied to systems that are disordered at all scales. The temperature-dependent resistivity shows linear, step-like transitions from insulating to metallic states as well as plateau features. As more current is being sourced, the fiber becomes more conductive and thus the current density goes up. The most interesting features is observed in high electric fields. As the fiber is cooled, the resistivity first decreases linearly with the temperature and then enters a plateau region at a temperature T ∼ 260 − 280 K that is field-independent. These observations on a system made out of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms suggest possible electric-field induced superconductivity with a high critical temperature that was predicted from studying the role of chirality on the origin of life [1].

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“…Indeed, extrapolating the experimental T c ( M ) plot in Fig. 4 from [61] (M is the cluster mass in atomic units m u ≊ 1. × 10 −27 Kg), we find that a T c ≃ 50 K would correspond to a mass of about 1600m u = 133m C , with m C the mass of a C atom.…”

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