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Prospects to attain room temperature superconductivity
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- With a generic model for the electron-phonon spectral density, two simple expressions are derived to estimate the transition temperature and gap-to-temperature ratio in conventional superconductors. They entail that on average the numerical value of the phonon exchange factor, $\lambda$, is limited to 2.67, so that room temperature superconductivity may be attained only with a Debye temperature of about 1800 K or higher, in materials that may or may not involve hydrogen. They also show that a Be-Pb alloy may become a superconductor at $\sim$44 K.<br />Comment: An application of the model to alloys is added to the manuscript, previously accepted into Solid State Communications on 03/05/19
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1905.01367
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssc.2019.05.002