Possible Fano resonance for high Tc multi-gap superconductivity in p-Terphenyl doped by K at the Lifshitz transition

Abstract

Recent experiments have reported the emergence of high temperature superconductivity with critical temperature $T_c$ between 43K and 123K in a potassium doped aromatic hydrocarbon para-Terphenyl or p-Terphenyl. This achievement provides the record for the highest Tc in an organic superconductor overcoming the previous record of Tc=38 K in Cs3C60 fulleride. Here we propose that the driving mechanism is the quantum resonance between superconducting gaps near a Lifshitz transition which belongs to the class of Fano resonances called shape resonances. For the case of p-Terphenyl our numerical solutions of the multi gap equation shows that high Tc is driven by tuning the chemical potential by K doping and it appears only in a narrow energy range near a Lifshitz transition. At the maximum critical temperature, Tc=123K, the condensate in the appearing new small Fermi surface pocket is in the BCS-BEC crossover while the Tc drops below 0.3 K where it is in the BEC regime. Finally we predict the experimental results which can support or falsify our proposed mechanism: a) the variation of the isotope coefficient as a function of the critical temperature and b) the variation of the gaps and their ratios 2Delta/Tc as a function of Tc.

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