Superconductivity in compressed potassium and rubidium

✍ Scribed by Lei Shi; Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos; Michael J. Mehl

• Book ID: 104166196
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Volume: 127
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-1098
• DOI: 10.1016/s0038-1098(03)00388-0

✦ Synopsis

Calculations of the electron -phonon interaction in the alkali metals, potassium and rubidium, using the results of band theory and BCS theory-based techniques suggest that at high pressures K and Rb would be superconductors with transition temperatures approaching 10 K.