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High Temperature Superconductivity Arising in a Metal Sheet Full of Holes
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: Received: 31 May 2022 / Approved: 31 May 2022 / Online: 31 May 2022 (06:17:46 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 27 June 2022 / Approved: 28 June 2022 / Online: 28 June 2022 (03:48:23 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 8 September 2022 / Approved: 9 September 2022 / Online: 9 September 2022 (04:01:57 CEST)
Version 4 : Received: 15 September 2023 / Approved: 15 September 2023 / Online: 18 September 2023 (03:19:17 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 27 June 2022 / Approved: 28 June 2022 / Online: 28 June 2022 (03:48:23 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 8 September 2022 / Approved: 9 September 2022 / Online: 9 September 2022 (04:01:57 CEST)
Version 4 : Received: 15 September 2023 / Approved: 15 September 2023 / Online: 18 September 2023 (03:19:17 CEST)
How to cite: Zen, N. High Temperature Superconductivity Arising in a Metal Sheet Full of Holes. Preprints 2022, 2022050411. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0411.v3 Zen, N. High Temperature Superconductivity Arising in a Metal Sheet Full of Holes. Preprints 2022, 2022050411. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0411.v3
Abstract
By drilling periodic thru-holes in a suspended film, the phonon system can be modified. Being motivated by the BCS theory, the technique, so-called phonon engineering, was applied to a niobium sheet. The newly emergent high-Tc superconductivity, however, cannot be accounted for by the BCS theory. Rather, its exposed configuration, namely a square-lattice oxygen network, is reminiscent of the copper--oxygen plane in cuprate high-Tc superconductors. It turns out that its magnetic result is consistent with the principle of giant atom, which was developed by another heroes of superconductivity, Fritz London and John Slater, in the 1930s, several decades earlier than the propagation of BCS theory. The superconducting transition feature is discussed on the basis of a comprehensive theory of the giant atom---the theory of hole superconductivity.
Keywords
Metal sheet; Phonon engineering; High Tc; Meissner effect; Giant atom; Hole superconductivity
Subject
Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics
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