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Functional form of the superconducting critical temperature from machine learning
- Source :
- Physical Review B. 100
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2019.
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Abstract
- Predicting the critical temperature ${T}_{c}$ of new superconductors is a notoriously difficult task, even for electron-phonon paired superconductors, for which the theory is relatively well understood. Early attempts to obtain a simple ${T}_{c}$ formula consistent with strong-coupling theory, by McMillan and by Allen and Dynes, led to closed-form approximate relations between ${T}_{c}$ and various measures of the phonon spectrum and the electron-phonon interaction appearing in Eliashberg theory. Here we propose that these approaches can be improved with the use of machine-learning algorithms. As an initial test, we train a model for identifying low-dimensional descriptors using the ${T}_{c}l10$ K dataset by Allen and Dynes, and show that a simple analytical expression thus obtained improves upon the Allen-Dynes fit. Furthermore, the prediction for the recently discovered high-${T}_{c}$ material ${\mathrm{H}}_{3}\mathrm{S}$ at high pressure is quite reasonable. Interestingly, ${T}_{c}$'s for more recently discovered superconducting systems with a more two-dimensional electron-phonon coupling, which do not follow Allen and Dynes's expression, also do not follow our analytic expression. Thus, this machine-learning approach appears to be a powerful method for highlighting the need for a new descriptor beyond those used by Allen and Dynes to describe their set of isotropic electron-phonon coupled superconductors. We argue that this machine-learning method, and its implied need for a descriptor characterizing Fermi-surface properties, represents a promising approach to superconductor materials discovery which may eventually replace the serendipitous discovery paradigm begun by Kamerlingh Onnes.
- Subjects :
- Superconductivity
Physics
Analytical expressions
Phonon
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Spectrum (functional analysis)
Isotropy
FOS: Physical sciences
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Coupling (probability)
01 natural sciences
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Theoretical physics
Simple (abstract algebra)
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
0103 physical sciences
Superconducting critical temperature
010306 general physics
0210 nano-technology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 24699969 and 24699950
- Volume :
- 100
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review B
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....57697af6782c86b4d9c714a07ff23b2c