Classifying charge carrier interaction in highly-compressed elements and silane

Abstract

Since pivotal experimental discovery of the near-room-temperature superconductivity (NRTS) in highly-compressed sulphur hydride by Drozdov et al (2015 Nature 525 73-76), more than a dozen of binary and of ternary hydrogen-rich phases exhibited superconducting transition above 100 K have been discovered to date. There is a widely accepted theoretical point of view that primary mechanism governing the emergence of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich phases is the electron-phonon pairing. However, our recent analysis of experimental temperature dependent resistance in $H_{3}S$, $La{H}_x$, $Pr{H}_9$ and $Ba{H}_{12}$ (arXiv: 2104.14145) showed that these compounds exhibit the dominance of non-electron-phonon charge carrier interaction and, thus, it is unlikely that the electron-phonon pairing is the primary mechanism for the emergence of superconductivity in these materials. Here we use the same approach to reveal charge carrier interaction in highly-compressed lithium, black phosphorous, sulfur, and silane. We found that all these superconductors exhibit the dominance of non-electron-phonon charge carrier interaction. This explains the failure of high-Tc values predicted for these materials by the first-principles calculations which utilized the electron-phonon pairing as the mechanism for the emergence of superconductivity in these materials. Our result implies that alternative pairing mechanisms (i.e., electron-magnon, electron-polaron, electron-electron, etc.) should be tested within first-principles calculations approach as possible mechanisms for the emergence of superconductivity in highly-compressed superconductors.

arXiv comment13 pages, 4 figures

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