The investigation of the electron-phonon properties in MgB2 has attracted a huge interest after the discovery of superconductivity with T-c = 39 K in this compound. Although superconductivity is often described in terms of the conventional Eliashberg theory, properly generalized in the multiband/multigap scenario, important features distinguish MgB2 from other conventional strong-coupling superconductors. Most important it is the fact that a large part of the total electron-phonon strength seems to be concentrated here in only one phonon mode, the boron-boron E-2g stretching mode. Another interesting property is the small Fermi energy of the a bands, which are strongly coupled with the E-2g mode. In this contribution, we discuss how the coexistence of both these features give rise to an unconventional phenomenology of the electron-phonon properties. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Small Fermi energy, strong electron-phonon effects and anharmonicity in MgB2 / E., Cappelluti; Pietronero, Luciano. - In: PHYSICA. C, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. - ISSN 0921-4534. - STAMPA. - 460-462:(2007), pp. 70-73. [10.1016/j.physc.2007.03.068]

Small Fermi energy, strong electron-phonon effects and anharmonicity in MgB2

PIETRONERO, Luciano
2007

Abstract

The investigation of the electron-phonon properties in MgB2 has attracted a huge interest after the discovery of superconductivity with T-c = 39 K in this compound. Although superconductivity is often described in terms of the conventional Eliashberg theory, properly generalized in the multiband/multigap scenario, important features distinguish MgB2 from other conventional strong-coupling superconductors. Most important it is the fact that a large part of the total electron-phonon strength seems to be concentrated here in only one phonon mode, the boron-boron E-2g stretching mode. Another interesting property is the small Fermi energy of the a bands, which are strongly coupled with the E-2g mode. In this contribution, we discuss how the coexistence of both these features give rise to an unconventional phenomenology of the electron-phonon properties. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
2007
superconductivity; electron-phonon coupling; scattering
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Small Fermi energy, strong electron-phonon effects and anharmonicity in MgB2 / E., Cappelluti; Pietronero, Luciano. - In: PHYSICA. C, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. - ISSN 0921-4534. - STAMPA. - 460-462:(2007), pp. 70-73. [10.1016/j.physc.2007.03.068]
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