Classifying superconductivity in compressed H3S

Abstract

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed H3S by Drozdov and co-workers (A. Drozdov, et. al., Nature 525, 73 (2015)) heralded a new era in superconductivity. To date, the record transition temperature of Tc = 260 K stands with another hydrogen-rich compound, LaH10 (M. Somayazulu, et. al., arXiv:1808.07695) which becomes superconducting at pressure of P = 190 GPa. Despite very intensive first-principle theoretical studies of hydrogen-rich compounds compressed to megabar level pressure, there is a very limited experimental dataset available for such materials. In this paper, we analyze the upper critical field, Bc2(T), data of highly compressed H3S reported by Mozaffari and co-workers (S. Mozaffari, et. al., LA-UR-18-30460, DOI: 10.2172/1481108) by utilizing four different models of Bc2(T). In result, we find that the ratio of superconducting energy gap, Δ(0), to the Fermi energy, εF, in all considered scenarios is 0.03 < Δ(0)/εF < 0.07, with respective ratio of Tc to the Fermi temperature, TF, 0.012 < Tc/TF < 0.039. These characterize H3S as unconventional superconductor and places it on the same trend line in Tc versus TF plot, where all unconventional superconductors located.

17 pages, 5 figures

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