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Condensed Matter, Volume 5, Issue 4

December 2020 - 27 articles

Cover Story: Chemical bonding is well adapted to discuss electronic instabilities and their impact on local aspects of superconductivity mechanisms: Mulliken electronegativity, Pearson hardness for atomic polarizability, van der Waals forces for charge-induced dipole interactions. Anionic or cationic clusters may undergo a partial disproportionation, an important phenomenon in chemistry; physicists would refer to this as a « negative-U » system. Is this static description also valid at the pico- and femto-second timescales of phonons and electronic dipole oscillations, respectively? The non-crossing rule imposes the mixing of electron states at the Fermi level, from which partial charge disproportionation occurs. Thus, as shown in this work, two approaches from chemistry lead to coupled charge fluctuations in titanate, cuprate, and iron selenide superconducting systems. View this paper
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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,709 Views
10 Pages

Structural Phase Diagram of LaO1−xFxBiSSe: Suppression of the Structural Phase Transition by Partial F Substitutions

  • Kazuhisa Hoshi,
  • Shunsuke Sakuragi,
  • Takeshi Yajima,
  • Yosuke Goto,
  • Akira Miura,
  • Chikako Moriyoshi,
  • Yoshihiro Kuroiwa and
  • Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

Recently, the anomalous two-fold-symmetric in-plane anisotropy of superconducting states has been observed in a layered superconductor system, LaO1−xFxBiSSe (x = 0.1 and 0.5), with a tetragonal (four-fold symmetric) in-plane structure. To under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,381 Views
7 Pages

It is shown that the translation-invariant bipolaron theory of superconductivity can explain the dependence of the isotope coefficient in high-temperature superconductors on the critical temperature of a superconducting transition: in the case of str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,198 Views
22 Pages

Measuring the Electron–Phonon Interaction in Two-Dimensional Superconductors with He-Atom Scattering

  • Giorgio Benedek,
  • Joseph R. Manson,
  • Salvador Miret-Artés,
  • Adrian Ruckhofer,
  • Wolfgang E. Ernst,
  • Anton Tamtögl and
  • Jan Peter Toennies

Helium-atom scattering (HAS) spectroscopy from conducting surfaces has been shown to provide direct information on the electron–phonon interaction, more specifically the mass-enhancement factor λ from the temperature dependence of the De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,812 Views
13 Pages

Potassium-Doped Para-Terphenyl: Structure, Electrical Transport Properties and Possible Signatures of a Superconducting Transition

  • Nicola Pinto,
  • Corrado Di Nicola,
  • Angela Trapananti,
  • Marco Minicucci,
  • Andrea Di Cicco,
  • Augusto Marcelli,
  • Antonio Bianconi,
  • Fabio Marchetti,
  • Claudio Pettinari and
  • Andrea Perali

Preliminary evidence for the occurrence of high-TC superconductivity in alkali-doped organic materials, such as potassium-doped p-terphenyl (KPT), were recently obtained by magnetic susceptibility measurements and by the opening of a large supercondu...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,536 Views
4 Pages

A short coherence length is a distinctive feature of many cases of unconventional superconductivity. While in conventional superconductors, it is many orders of magnitude larger than the basic inter-particle distance, a short coherence length is comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,963 Views
9 Pages

Temperature Dependent Structural Evolution of WSe2: A Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study

  • Sinu Mathew,
  • Aben Regi Abraham,
  • Sandhya Chintalapati,
  • Soumya Sarkar,
  • Boby Joseph and
  • Thirumalai Venkatesan

A thorough investigation of the structural parameters of micromechanically exfoliated multilayer WSe2 flakes was undertaken between 400 K to 110 K. Crystal structure of WSe2 remains in the trigonal prismatic structure in this temperature range, howev...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
21,266 Views
28 Pages

Renewable technologies, and in particular the electric vehicle revolution, have generated tremendous pressure for the improvement of lithium ion battery performance. To meet the increasingly high market demand, challenges include improving the energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,913 Views
12 Pages

Internal energies, enthalpies, phonon dispersion curves, and superconductivity of atomic metallic hydrogen are calculated. The standard use of pseudopotentials in density-functional theory are compared with full Coulomb-potential, all-electron linear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,994 Views
11 Pages

On the Elastic Properties and Fracture Patterns of MoX2 (X = S, Se, Te) Membranes: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study

  • Marcelo Lopes Pereira Júnior,
  • Cícera Maria Viana de Araújo,
  • José Moreira De Sousa,
  • Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior,
  • Luiz Fernando Roncaratti Júnior,
  • William Ferreira Giozza and
  • Luiz Antonio Ribeiro Júnior

We carried out fully-atomistic reactive molecular dynamics simulations to study the elastic properties and fracture patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) MoX2 (X = S, Se, Te) membranes, in their 2H and 1T phases, within the framework of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,480 Views
14 Pages

Detection of Spin Polarized Band in VO2/TiO2(001) Strained Films via Orbital Selective Constant Initial State Spectroscopy

  • Alessandro D’Elia,
  • Cesare Grazioli,
  • Albano Cossaro,
  • Bowen Li,
  • Chongwen Zou,
  • Seyed Javad Rezvani,
  • Augusto Marcelli and
  • Marcello Coreno

The VO2 is a 3d1 electron system that undergoes a reversible metal–insulator transition (MIT) triggered by temperature and characterized by an interplay between orbital, charge and lattice degrees of freedom. The characterization of the MIT fea...

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