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Jun Dai1, Zhenyu Li, Jinlong Yang
1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Abstract:
Based on first-principles lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling calculations, B(2)C sheets are predicted to be a two-dimensional (2D) phonon-mediated superconductors with a relatively high transition temperature (T(c)). The electron-phonon coupling parameter was calculated to be 0.92 and it is mainly contributed by low frequency out-of-plane phonon modes and electronic states with a π character. When the Coulomb pseudopotential, μ*, is set to 0.10, the estimated temperature, T(c), is 19.2 K. To the best of our knowledge, B(2)C is the first pristine 2D superconductor with a T(c) higher than the boiling point of liquid helium.
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