Statut | Confirmé |
Série | SEM-BESSON |
Domaines | cond-mat |
Date | Lundi 18 Mai 2009 |
Heure | 10:30 |
Institut | IMPMC |
Salle | Salle de Conference, Batiment 15,140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris |
Nom de l'orateur | Boeri |
Prenom de l'orateur | Lilia |
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Institution de l'orateur | Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research,Heisenbergstrasse 1, Stuttgart |
Titre | Iron-based superconductors: what can we learn from dft? |
Résumé | The discovery of superconductivity with a critical temperature Tc of 26 K in fluorine-doped LaOFeAs in early 2008 has initiated a so-called "iron age" in the field of superconductivity. In a few months, several new iron-based superconductors, with Tc's as high as 55 K, have been found. Their crystal structures show a common motive, characterized by a square Fe lattice, surrounded by distorted tetrahedra of pnictogen or chalchogen atoms. Besides superconductivity, iron-based superconductors show a spin density wave (SDW) transition accompanied by a lattice distortion. This points to a possible unconventional origin of superconductivity, in analogy with the high-Tc cuprates, although there is no general consensus on the pairing mechanism. The main experimental findings concerning iron-based superconductors will be first reviewed and discussed here. Then Density Functional theory will be used to describe the electronic and vibrational properties of LaOFeAs, which is a prototype compound for iron pnictides. Using linear response calculations, I will show that the standard Migdal-Eliashberg theory fails to account for the observed critical temperature. Using an ab-initio effective tight-binding Hamiltonian, based on Fe d and As p Wannier orbitals,derived from NMTO downfolding, I will then analyze the origin of the band structure of iron pnictides, and use this tight-binding model to discuss the origin of magnetism in Fe based superconductors and its itinerant nature |
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