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Superconducting properties of MoTe2 from ab initio anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory

Paudyal, Hari
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Ponce, Samuel  
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Giustino, Feliciano
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June 11, 2020
Physical Review B

Molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2) is attracting considerable interest since it is the archetypal type-II Weyl semimetal and a candidate for topological superconductivity. We investigate the superconducting phase diagram of two MoTe2 polymorphs using the ab initio anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory, and we show that the superconducting dome originates from the synergistic contribution of the density of states at the Fermi level and the transverse acoustic Te modes in the 1T' phase. We find that the electron and hole pockets carry trivial s-wave order parameters of slightly different magnitude, reminiscent of a two-gap structure as suggested by recent experiments. We suggest that a possible route for enhancing the superconducting critical temperature, and realizing s(+-) pairing, in the T-d phase is to exploit its nontrivial band topology via electron doping.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.101.214515
Web of Science ID

WOS:000539494000008

Author(s)
Paudyal, Hari
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Ponce, Samuel  
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Giustino, Feliciano
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Margine, Elena R.
Date Issued

2020-06-11

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

101

Issue

21

Article Number

214515

Subjects

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Materials Science

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Physics

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crystal

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