1. Stability and electronic properties of two-dimensional gallium
- Author
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Kutana, Alex, Ruan, Qiyuan, Zhang, Jun-Jie, Penev, Evgeni S., and Yakobson, Boris I.
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science - Abstract
Two-dimensional metals offer intriguing possibilities to explore metallicity and other related properties in systems with reduced dimensionality. Here, following recent experimental reports of synthesis of two-dimensional metallic gallium (gallenene) on insulating substrates, we conduct a computational search of gallenene structures using the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, and identify stable low energy structures. Our calculations of the critical temperature for conventional superconductivity yield values $\sim 7$ K for gallenene. We also emulate the presence of the substrate by introducing the external confining potential and test its effect on the structures with unstable phonons.
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- 2021