Ab initio theory of superconductivity. II. Application to elemental metals

By M. Marques, M. Lüders, N. Lathiotakis, G. Profeta, A. Floris, L. Fast, A. Continenza, E. K. U. Gross, S. Massidda. 2004

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The density functional theory for superconductors developed in the preceding article is applied to the calculation of superconducting properties of several elemental metals. In particular, we present results for the transition temperature, for the gap at zero temperature, and for thermodynamic properties like the specific heat. We obtain an unprecedented agreement with experimental results. Superconductors with both strong and weak electron-phonon coupling are equally well described. This demonstrates that, as far as conventional superconductivity is concerned, the first-principles prediction of superconducting properties is feasible.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• The physics of quantum materials (2017, background): “Ab initio methods now also yield accurate values for the transition temperatures of conventional superconductors with weakly correlated electrons, ranging from Pb to MgB 2 (refs 20,21).”
• A perspective on conventional high-temperature superconductors at high pressure: Methods and materials (2019, methodology): “is an extension of DFT to account for the very peculiar symmetry breaking that occurs in a superconductor [30, 243]. Proposed in 1988 [32] by Oliveira, Gross and Kohn was later revisited and extended [251, 33, 34] to merge with the multi-component DFT of Kreibich and Gross [252] to include nuclear m”
• Electron-phonon interactions from first principles (2016, background): “Another promising ab initio approach to the calculation of the superconducting critical temperature is the density functional theory for superconductors (Lüders et al., 2005; Marques et al., 2005).”