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Auteur principal: van der Marel, Dirk
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05828
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author van der Marel, Dirk
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contents In a superconductor electrons form pairs despite the Coulomb repulsion as a result of an effective attractive interaction mediated by, for example phonons. In the present paper DeGennes' description of the dynamically screened Coulomb interaction is adopted for the effective interaction. This model is generalized by including the elastic response of the charge-compensating background and the BCS gap equation is solved for the resulting effective electron-electron interaction. It is demonstrated that the superconducting critical temperature becomes strongly enhanced when the material is tuned close to a structural instability.
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spellingShingle Thoughts about boosting superconductivity
van der Marel, Dirk
Superconductivity
In a superconductor electrons form pairs despite the Coulomb repulsion as a result of an effective attractive interaction mediated by, for example phonons. In the present paper DeGennes' description of the dynamically screened Coulomb interaction is adopted for the effective interaction. This model is generalized by including the elastic response of the charge-compensating background and the BCS gap equation is solved for the resulting effective electron-electron interaction. It is demonstrated that the superconducting critical temperature becomes strongly enhanced when the material is tuned close to a structural instability.
title Thoughts about boosting superconductivity
topic Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05828