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Experimental and theoretical studies on superconductivity in SrIr2 and SrRh2 Laves phases are presented. The measured resistivity, heat capacity, and magnetic susceptibility confirm the superconductivity of these compounds with Tc = 6.07 and 5.41 K, respectively. Electronic structure calculations show that the Fermi surface is mostly contributed by 5d (4d) electrons of Ir (Rh), with Sr atoms playing the role of electron donors. The effect of the spin-orbit coupling is analyzed and found to be important in both materials. Lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling (EPC) are studied and the strong electron-phonon interaction is found, contributed mostly by the low-frequency Ir and Rh vibrations. The enhancement of EPC, when compared to weakly coupled metallic Ir and Rh, is explained by the strong modifications in the propagation of phonons in the network of Ir (Rh) tetrahedrons, which are the building blocks of the Laves phase, and originate from the metallic fcc structures of elemental iridium and rhodium.
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Sylwia Gutowska
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Paweł Wójcik
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Bartlomiej Wiendlocha
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
no. 104,
ISSN: 2469-9950 - Language:
- English
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- 2021
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- Gutowska S., Górnicka K., Wójcik P., Klimczuk T., Wiendlocha B.: Strong-coupling superconductivity of SrIr2 and SrRh2 : Phonon engineering of metallic Ir and Rh// PHYSICAL REVIEW B -Vol. 104,iss. 5 (2021), s.054505-
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1103/physrevb.104.054505
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