Understand the role of low-lying phonons in strong electron-phonon coupling superconductor BaPd2As2

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Strong electron phonon coupling has been identified as the origin of enhancement of superconducting transition temperature (Tc) in many systems. In these superconductors structural instabilities or low lying phonons are known to enhance the electron phonon coupling and hence Tc. Recently Guo et al. reported superconductivity at 3.85 K in BaPd2As2 in the ThCr2Si2- type polymorphs. Specific heat measurements reveal that BaPd2As2 has an anomalously low Debye temperature, originating from low lying phonons. In this system a relationship between lattice structure and the Debye temperature is observed. A large jump at Tc in the specific-heat data clearly indicates BaPd2As2 is a strong coupling superconductor, derived from the presence of soft phonons. Here we plan to investigate the microscopic properties of BaPd2As2 using transverse field and zero field μSR on the MUSR spectrometer.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.99996436
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/99996436
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Creator Professor Zakir Hossain; Dr Vivek Kumar Anand; Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Dr Amitava Bhattacharyya
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-15T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-11-19T09:30:00Z