High-temperature superconductivity in atomic metallic hydrogen

被引:172
作者
McMahon, Jeffrey M. [1 ]
Ceperley, David M. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[2] Univ Illinois, NCSA, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2011年 / 84卷 / 14期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
STRONG-COUPLED SUPERCONDUCTORS; TRANSITION-TEMPERATURE; SOLID HYDROGEN; HIGH-PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PHASES;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.84.144515
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Superconductivity in the recently proposed ground-state structures of atomic metallic hydrogen is calculated over the pressure range 500 GPa to 3.5 TPa. Near molecular dissociation, the electron-phonon coupling lambda and renormalized Coulomb repulsion are similar to the molecular phase. A nearly continuous increase in the critical temperature T-c with pressure is thus predicted in this range, to similar to 356 K near 500 GPa. As the atomic phase stabilizes with increasing pressure, lambda increases, causing T-c to approach 481 K near 700 GPa. At the first atomic-atomic structural phase transformation near 1-1.5 TPa, a discontinuous jump in lambda occurs, causing T-c to increase up to 764 K.
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