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Theoretical and experimental study of aromatic hydrocarbon superconductors
Zhongbing Huang
1Hubei University, Wuhan, China
2Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Évora, Portugal, 6-10 October 2014
Collaborators:
Prof. Haiqing Lin, Beijing Computational Science Research Center Dr. Xunwang Yan, Beijing Computational Science Research Center Dr. Guohua Zhong, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Workshop on correlations, criticality, and coherence in quantum systems
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Outline
• Research background • Research plans • Theoretical results • Conclusions
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Picene (C22H14) (experiment)
Tc = 7K
Tc = 18 K
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K3.1picene K3.5picene
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Phenanthrene (C14H10) (experiment)
Tc ~ 5 K At 1 GPa, 20% increase of Tc
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Tc ~ 28-33 K
Dibenzopentacene(C30H18)(experiment)
Tc1 ~ 33K, Tc2 ~ 22K, Tc3 ~ 4K
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Important properties (experiment)
Tc increases with increasing the Number of benzene rings!
Curie-Weiss magnetic behavior
ambition
local spin (~0.2µB)
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C22H14 (theory)
Effective Coulomb interaction between electrons Ueff is larger than the bandwidth W near the Fermi energy. Picene is a strongly correlated electron system.
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λ = 0.73, ωlog = 18.0 meV (208 K) Intercalant and intermolecular phonon modes contribute substantially (40%) to λ as also shown by the isotope exponents of potassium (0.19) and carbon (0.31).
C22H14 (theory)
Unlike C60, where intramolecular phohons dominate λ.
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Open questions:
1. What are the crystal and electronic structures for the superconducting phase? 2. What is the physical origin for local spin? 3. Does electron correlation contribute to superconductivity? 4. Do there exist new aromatic superconductors?
Motivation for our study
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Research plans:
Methods based on Density functional theory (LDA, GGA, HSE,…)
Methods based on Many body theory (QMC, ED, DMFT…)
• Properties of molecular crystals
• Models of molecular crystals
• Properties of models
• Electronic correlation effects beyond DFT
Experimental study (ongoing…)
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Theoretical results
• Magnetic and pairing properties of single molecule and molecular crystal (Scientific Reports 2, 922, 2012, JAP 113, 17E131, 2013)
• Identify the crystal structures for metal-doped picene (arXiv: 1407.0747)
• Identify the crystal structures for La/Ba-doped phenanthrene (JCP 139, 204709, 2013, under review in JCP) • Prediction of superconductivity in K,Ba-codoped phenanthrene (unpublished) • Prediction of superconductivity in K-doped benzene (unpublished)
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t~2.7-3.0 eV U/t~1-4
Starting point: One-orbital Hubbard model defined on a single molecule.
Scientific Reports 2, 922 (2012).
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Density Functional Theory: C22H14-A: E(LUMO+1)-E(LUMO) < 0.1 eV
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Spin phase diagram
For the charged molecules with two added electrons, the spin polarized state (S=1) has lower energy than the paramagnetic state (S=0).
local spin
The number of added electrons.
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Normal state: Curie-like
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Effect of nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction V on the ground state.
The energy difference increases with increasing V, making S=0 state more stable than S=1 state for large V.
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Pair binding energy
>0: attractive interaction for added electrons <0: repulsive interaction for added electrons Notes: (1) Applied for the low energy physics of renormalized electrons, not for the bare electrons. (2) Applied for high-Tc superconductors and C60.
i=1, 2, 3
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Pair binding energy for picene and phenanthrene
Pair binding energy is always negative => no contribution to formation of Cooper pairs.
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• In the region ε<0.8t, the pair binding energy for 9,10-dihydro- phenanthrene, cis-stilbene, and biphenyl is much less negative than phenanthrene, suggesting that Coulomb pseudopotential µ* is rather weak in these molecular crystals. Higher Tc!
Other aroma*c molecules
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Antiferromagnetism in potassium-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
K3C14H10-A: phenanthrene K3C22H14-A: picene K3C22H14-B: 1,2:5,6-dibenzanthrancene K3C30H18-A: 7-phenacene K3C30H18-B: 1,2:8,9-dibenzopentacene
1. The ground state lies in the AFM-2 state, with spins antiparalleling between two molecular layers 2. The magnetic moment increases with Increasing the benzene numbers
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phenanthrene
picene
1,2:8,9-dibenzo pentacene
Polarized spin density is enhanced with increasing the benzene number
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Tc = 7K
Tc = 18 K
Identify the two superconducting phases in potassium-doped picene superconductors
(arXiv:1407.0747)
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Tc ~ 7K Tc ~ 18K
(LDA)
Previous studies
Comparison of lattice parameters between experiment and theory
Large discrepancies for a and b axises!
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K3-I
K4 K3-III
K3-II
Possible crystal structures
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Lowest energy
Lowest energy
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Formation energy
x stands for the number of K atoms. Edopant is the product of single atom energy in bulk metal and atom number in a unit cell. For the K2-BD phase, the formation energy is -0.330 eV per K atom, which suggests that it is easy to be synthesized in experiment. The formation energy of the K3-I phase is -0.295 eV per K atom, comparable to the one for K2picene. For K4picene the corresponding formation energy is -0.067 eV per K atom.à unstable
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picene
K2-picene
K3-picene
Only K2 and K3 picene can be realized!
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Comparison of XRD spectra between experiment and theory
Tc ~ 7 K sample
Tc ~ 7 K sample corresponds to K2-BD.
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Tc ~ 18 K sample
Pristine picene and KOH are dominant in the 18 K sample.
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K2-BD semiconducting
K3-I metallic
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Conclusions
q The spin polarized state is realized in the charged aromatic molecules with two added electrons.
q Electron correlation is not enough for superconductivity.
q The ground state of K-doped aromatic hydrocarbons corresponds to an antiferromagnetic state.
q Tc ~ 7K and 18K superconducting phases of K-doped picene correspond to K2-BD and K3-I, respectively.
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