Strong electron-phonon coupling in Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Ni$_2$As$_2$
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| author | Song, Linxing Si, Jianguo Fennell, Tom Stuhr, Uwe Deng, Guochu Wang, Jinchen Liu, Juanjuan Hao, Lijie Luo, Huiqian Liu, Miao Meng, Sheng Li, Shiliang |
| author_facet | Song, Linxing Si, Jianguo Fennell, Tom Stuhr, Uwe Deng, Guochu Wang, Jinchen Liu, Juanjuan Hao, Lijie Luo, Huiqian Liu, Miao Meng, Sheng Li, Shiliang |
| contents | The charge density wave (CDW) or nematicity has been found to coexist with superconductivity in many systems. It is thus interesting that the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in the doped BaNi$_2$As$_2$ system can be enhanced up to six times as the CDW or nematicity in the undoped compound is suppressed. Here we show that the transverse acoustic phonons of Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Ni$_2$As$_2$ are strongly damped in a wide doping range and over the whole $Q$ range, which excludes its origin from either CDW or nematicity. The damping of TA phonons can be understood as large electron-phonon coupling and possible strong hybridization between acoustic and optical phonons as shown by the first-principle calculations. The superconductivity can be quantitatively reproduced by the change of electron-phonon coupling constant calculated by the McMillan equation in the BCS framework, which suggests that no quantum fluctuations of any order is needed to promote the superconductivity. On the contrary, the change of $T_c$ in this system should be understood as the six-fold suppression of superconductivity in undoped compounds. |
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| spellingShingle | Strong electron-phonon coupling in Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Ni$_2$As$_2$ Song, Linxing Si, Jianguo Fennell, Tom Stuhr, Uwe Deng, Guochu Wang, Jinchen Liu, Juanjuan Hao, Lijie Luo, Huiqian Liu, Miao Meng, Sheng Li, Shiliang Superconductivity The charge density wave (CDW) or nematicity has been found to coexist with superconductivity in many systems. It is thus interesting that the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in the doped BaNi$_2$As$_2$ system can be enhanced up to six times as the CDW or nematicity in the undoped compound is suppressed. Here we show that the transverse acoustic phonons of Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Ni$_2$As$_2$ are strongly damped in a wide doping range and over the whole $Q$ range, which excludes its origin from either CDW or nematicity. The damping of TA phonons can be understood as large electron-phonon coupling and possible strong hybridization between acoustic and optical phonons as shown by the first-principle calculations. The superconductivity can be quantitatively reproduced by the change of electron-phonon coupling constant calculated by the McMillan equation in the BCS framework, which suggests that no quantum fluctuations of any order is needed to promote the superconductivity. On the contrary, the change of $T_c$ in this system should be understood as the six-fold suppression of superconductivity in undoped compounds. |
| title | Strong electron-phonon coupling in Ba$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Ni$_2$As$_2$ |
| topic | Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03649 |