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  1. how strong can the electron-phonon interaction in metals be?

Emil Yuzbashyan

Rutgers University, USA

3 November 2022 Thu 4 pm

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I’ll show that the dimensionless electron-phonon coupling λ cannot exceed a certain critical value in metals. Increasing λ beyond this value leads to a structural instability accompanied by a metal-insulator transition. This also implies an upper bound on the superconducting Tc in units of the characteristic phonon frequency in conventional superconductors. We’ll compare the upper bounds on λ and Tc with existing experimental data.


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