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Ertuğrul Karaca1,2, Fang Hong3,4, Daniel Errandonea5
1Sakarya University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, 54050, Sakarya, Turkey.
Abstract:
High-pressure superconductivity in metal monochalcogenides has been ascribed to disorder-driven Anderson localization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 196001 (2025)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.134.196001]. Using density-functional perturbation theory and Migdal-Eliashberg calculations, we show that superconductivity in BiSe, PbSe, PbS, and HgS is instead governed by a universal intrinsic mechanism. Under pressure, the superconducting transition temperature is fully regulated by conventional electron-phonon coupling and decreases monotonically with pressure due to phonon hardening and a reduced density of states at the Fermi level. The increase of T_{c} previously reported upon decompression arises from the recovery of stronger intrinsic coupling in metastable low-pressure phases, without invoking disorder or localization effects previously used to explain this phenomenon. Our results establish a unified phonon-mediated description of superconductivity in metal monochalcogenides and solve conflicting interpretations.
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