Machine-learning Guided Search for Phonon-mediated Superconductivity in Boron and Carbon Compounds
arXiv:2409.18441 · doi:10.1038/s41524-026-01962-w
Abstract
We present a workflow that iteratively combines \textit{ab-initio} calculations with a machine-learning (ML) guided search for superconducting compounds with both dynamical stability and instability from imaginary phonon modes, the latter of which have been largely overlooked in previous studies. Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) properties and critical temperature (T) of 417 boron, carbon, and borocarbide compounds have been calculated with density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) and isotropic Eliashberg approximation. Our study addresses T convergence of Brillouin zone sampling with an ansatz test, stabilizing imaginary phonon modes for significant EPC contributions and comparing performance of two ML models especially when including compounds of dynamical instability. We predict a few promising superconducting compounds with formation energy just above the ground state convex hull, such as CaBN (35 K), TaNbC (28.4 K), NbBC (16.4 K), YBC (4.0 K), PdCaB (7.0 K), MoRuB (15.6 K), RuVB (15.0 K), RuScC (6.6 K) among others.
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