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Effects of phonon dispersion on the bond-bipolaron superconductivity

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Abstract

We employ the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method based on lattice path-integral representaion of the particle sector and real-space diagrammatics of the phonon sector to study effects of optical phonon dispersion on Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons in the bond model. For dispersionless phonons with frequency $\omega$ this model was recently shown to give rise to small-size, light-mass bipolarons that undergo a superfluid transition at high values of the $T_c/\omega$ ratio. We find that for dispersive phonons, $T_c$ remains relatively high over a broader range of the coupling strength and even keeps increasing in the deep adiabatic regime both in two and three dimensions. This result implies that phonon dispersion is not a limiting factor in the search for new materials with high superconducting temperatures.

Presenters

  • Chao Zhang

    Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China, Anhui Normal University

Authors

  • Chao Zhang

    Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China, Anhui Normal University

  • Nikolay Prokof'ev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Boris Svistunov

    University of Massachusetts Amherst