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Room temperature superconductivity dome at a Fano resonance in superlattices of wires

Maria Vittoria Mazziotti, Thomas Jarlborg, Antonio Bianconi, Antonio Valletta

2021Europhysics Letters (EPL)14 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract Recently room temperature superconductivity with degrees Celsius has been discovered in a pressurized complex ternary hydride, CSH x , which is a carbon- and hydrogen-doped H 3 S alloy. The nanoscale structure of H 3 S is a particular realization of the 1993 patent claim of superlattice of quantum wires for room temperature superconductors and the maximum T C occurs at the top of a superconducting dome. Here we focus on the electronic structure of materials showing nanoscale heterostructures at the atomic limit made of a superlattice of quantum wires like hole-doped cuprate perovskites, and organics focusing on A 15 intermetallics and pressurized hydrides. We provide a perspective of the theory of room temperature multigap superconductivity in heterogeneous materials tuned at a shape resonance or Fano resonance in the superconducting gaps near a Lifshitz transition focusing on H 3 S where the maximum T C occurs where the multiband metal is tuned by pressure near a Lifshitz transition. Here the superconductivity dome of T C vs. pressure is driven by both electron-phonon coupling and contact exchange interaction. We show that the T C amplification up to room temperature is driven by the Fano resonance between a superconducting gap in the anti-adiabatic regime and other gaps in the adiabatic regime. In these cases the T C amplification via contact exchange interaction is the missing term in conventional multiband BCS and anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theories including only Cooper pairing.

Topics & Concepts

Condensed matter physicsSuperconductivitySuperlatticeCooper pairResonance (particle physics)Quantum dotHydrostatic pressureMaterials scienceProximity effect (electron beam lithography)PhysicsAdiabatic processQuantumHigh-temperature superconductivityCoherence lengthCuprateSuperconducting coherence lengthCoupling (piping)Ternary operationHeterojunctionFano resonanceTransition temperatureOrganic and Molecular Conductors ResearchQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamicsPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism