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Charting the landscape of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors in experimentally known compounds

  • 1. PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data, and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • 2. European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Chemin des Étoiles 8, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 3. WEL Research Institute, Avenue Pasteur 6, 1300 Wavre, Belgium
  • 4. Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • 5. Electronic Components, Technology and Materials (ECTM), TU Delft, The Netherlands
  • 6. Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, and MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 7. Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 8. Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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We perform a high-throughput computational search for novel phonon-mediated superconductors, starting from the Materials Cloud 3-dimensional database (MC3D) of experimentally known inorganic stoichiometric compounds. We first compute the Allen-Dynes critical temperature Tc for 4533 non-magnetic metals using a direct and progressively finer sampling of the electron-phonon couplings. For the candidates with the largest Tc, we use automated Wannierizations and electron-phonon interpolations to obtain a high-quality dataset for the most promising 250 dynamically stable structures, for which we calculate spectral functions, superconducting bandgaps, and isotropic Migdal-Eliashberg critical temperatures. For 139 of these, we also provide anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg superconducting gaps and critical temperatures. The approach is remarkably successful in finding known superconductors, and we find 24 unknown ones with a predicted anisotropic Tc above 10 K. Among them, we identify a possible double gap superconductor (p-doped BaB2), a non-magnetic half-Heusler ZrRuSb, and the perovskite TaRu3C, all exhibiting significant Tc. Finally, we introduce a sensitivity analysis to estimate the robustness of the predictions.

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M. Bercx, S. Poncé, Y. Zhang, G. Trezza, A. Ghorbani Ghezeljehmeidan, L. Bastonero, J. Qiao, F. O. von Rohr, G. Pizzi, E. Chiavazzo, N. Marzari, Charting the landscape of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors in experimentally known compounds, in preparation.