Superconductivity in Room Temperature Stable electride and high-pressure phases of alkali metals

Abstract

S-band metals such as alkali and alkaline earth metals do not undergo a superconducting transition (SCT) at an ambient pressure, but their high-pressure phases do. In contrast, room temperature stable electride electride (C12A7:e-) in which anionic electrons in the crystallographic sub-nanometer-size cages have high s-character exhibits SCT at 0.2-0.4K at an ambient pressure. In this paper we report that crystal and electronic structure of C12A7:e- are close to those of the high pressure superconducting phase of alkali and alkaline earth metals and the SCT of both materials is induced when electron nature at Fermi energy (EF) switches from s- to sd-hybridized state.

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