Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 93, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.104509
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Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [51373065, 91123031, 21221063]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB933800]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20130061130010]
- University of Saskatchewan research computing group
- EFree, an Energy Frontier Research Center - Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC-0001057]
- National Nuclear Security Administration, Carnegie/DOE Alliance Center [DE-NA-0002006]
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Guided by a simple strategy in search of new superconducting materials, we predict that high-temperature superconductivity can be realized in classes of high-density materials having strong sp(3) chemical bonding and high lattice symmetry. We examine in detail sodalite carbon frameworks doped with simple metals such as Li, Na, and Al. Though such materials share some common features with doped diamond, their doping level is not limited, and the density of states at the Fermi level in them can be as high as that in the renowned MgB2. Together with other factors, this boosts the superconducting temperature (T-c) in the materials investigated to higher levels compared to doped diamond. For example, the T-c of sodalitelike NaC6 is predicted to be above 100 K. This phase and a series of other sodalite-based superconductors are predicted to be metastable phases but are dynamically stable. Owing to the rigid carbon framework of these and related dense carbon materials, these doped sodalite-based structures could be recoverable as potentially useful superconductors.
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