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Huu T. Do

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arXiv2026

Evidence for superconductivity at 190 K in a pressure-overdoped cuprate

It is well established that the critical temperature ($T_c$) of cuprate superconductors can be tuned by pressure. For example, compression decouples the hole doping from chemical doping allowing for overdoped samples far beyond what is possible at ambient pressure. In this work, multiple techniques are used to probe the onset of the Meissner effect at $T_c$ as a function of pressure in $\mathrm{Pb_{0.4}Bi_{1.6}Sr_2Ca_2Cu_3O_{10+\delta}}$ (Bi-2223) to 60 GPa in different compression environments. Samples compressed under quasihydrostatic conditions exhibit a distinctive non-monotonic pressure dependence of $T_c$ below 25 GPa, in agreement with previous reports. With further increase in pressure $T_c$ climbs continuously to 190 K at 60 GPa. Evidence for critical temperatures exceeding those reported to date for cuprates at ambient and high pressures, the results may be understood in terms of the proposed second superconducting regime at high hole doping.

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arXiv2026

Fingerprint of $T_c$ advancement in Li-doped Bi-2223 superconductors prepared by cationic molecular mixing within Pechini sol-gel synthesis

Trilayered Bi-2223 superconductor features the highest critical temperature $T_c$ among the bismuth-based cuprate collection and symbolizes an ideal prototype for studying intrinsic superconducting properties. The previous solid-state reaction method substantiated the growth of the high-quality Bi-2223 compounds but was accompanied by excessively laborious time and effort in terms of multiple grinding, pressing, as well as calcining stages, %causing risk of constituent loss, so finding a less tedious synthesis path is imperative. Here, we present an advanced sol-gel synthesis for assembling the multicomponent complexity of Bi1.4Pb0.6Sr2Ca2(Cu1-xLix)3O10 superconductors (Li-doped Bi-2223), with $x$ = 0.0--0.20, utilizing metallic cationic molecular mixing within the chemical Pechini polyesterization route followed by single-step pyrolysis and sintering stages. Although monovalent cations such as Li$^+$ pose limitations in establishing a perplex crosslinking network or chelating mechanism in the Pechini method, they represent a unique probe to elucidate the major chemical process during polymerization. We observe that a 5 molar~\% Li-doped sample pronounces the highest $T_c$ = 111.4 K among the series of samples, as confirmed by both ac susceptibility and dc resistivity measurements, and is equivalent to the value obtained by our preceding solid state fabrication. In addition, we showcase a rare observation of layer-by-layer crystalline phase growth under microstructure probe. Through analyzing the reliable ac susceptibility data at low magnetic fields in a wide range of frequency, we provide the quantum flux formation and flux creep mechanism by Anderson-M\"uller's model and Cole-Cole plot.

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arXiv2024

Signature of T$_\textrm{c}$ above 111 K in Li-doped (Bi,Pb)-2223 superconductors: synergistic nature of hole concentration, coherence length and Josephson interlayer coupling

Understanding the bottleneck to drive higher critical transition temperature $T_\textrm{c}$ plays a pivotal role in the underlying study of superconductors. We systematically investigate the effect of Li$^+$ substitution for Cu$^{2+}$ cations on the $T_\textrm{c}$, hole concentration, coherence length and interlayer coupling, and microstructure in Li-doped Bi$_{1.6}$Pb$_{0.4}$Sr$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{10 + δ}$ or (Bi,Pb)-2223 compound. Remarkably, we demonstrate by utilizing a long-time sintering accompanied by a multiple recurrent intermediate stages of calcining and pressing within our renovated solid-state reaction method, the optimal Li-doped (Bi,Pb)-2223 samples achieve the well-enhanced $T_\textrm{c}$ of 111--113.8 K compared with the standard value of 110 K. We evince the superconducting mechanism that the substitution of Li$^{+}$ for Cu$^{2+}$ ions on the CuO$_2$ layers causes augmenting the hole concentrations and promotes the correlation between the overdoped outer and the underdoped inner CuO$_2$ planes, and thus effects improve $T_\textrm{c}$. Following a universal quadratic relation between $T_\textrm{c}$ and hole concentration, a new higher optimal hole concentration is provided. Additionally, by analyzing the Aslamazov-Larkin and Lawrence-Doniach theories on the reliable excess conductivity data near the critical temperature, we observe the strong effect of Li-doping on the system. The coherence length steadily increases versus the Li-doped content, while the Josephson interlayer coupling strength between the CuO$_2$ layers almost remains a constant for the whole series of Li-doping. Our findings establish an insightful roadmap to improve the critical temperature and intrinsic superconducting properties in the Bi-2223 compounds through the doping process.

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arXiv2023

Delocalized polaron and Burstein-Moss shift induced by Li in $α$-$\textrm{V}_{2}\textrm{O}_{5}$: DFT+DMFT study

We performed density functional theory (DFT)+$U$ and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) calculations with continuous time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solver to investigate the electronic properties of V$_2$O$_5$ and Li$_x$V$_2$O$_5$ ($x$ = 0.125 and 0.25). Pristine V$_2$O$_5$ is a charge-transfer insulator with strong O $p$-V $d$ hybridization, and exhibits a large band gap ($E_{\textrm{gap}}$) as well as non-zero conduction band (CB) gap. We show that the band gap, the number of $d$ electrons of vanadium, $N_d$, and conduction band (CB) gap for V$_2$O$_5$ obtained from our DMFT calculations are in excellent agreement with the experimental values. While the DFT+$U$ approach replicates the experimental band gap, it overestimates the value of $N_d$ and underestimates the CB gap. In the presence of low Li doping, the electronic properties of V$_2$O$_5$ are mainly driven by a polaronic mechanism, the electron spin resonance and electron nuclear double resonance spectroscopies observed the coexistence of free and bound polarons. Notably, our DMFT results identify both polaron types, with the bound polaron being energetically preferred, while DFT+$U$ method predicts only the free polaron. Our DMFT analysis also reveals that increased Li doping leads to electron filling in the conduction band, shifting the Fermi level, this result consistent with the observed Burstein-Moss shift upon enhanced Li doping and we thus demonstrate that the DFT+DMFT approach can be used for accurate and realistic description of strongly correlated materials.

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arXiv2019

Effective interactions between local hopping modulations on the square lattice

We address the problem of free fermions interacting with frozen gauge fields. In particular, we consider a tight-binding model of fermions on the square lattice in which (i) flux 0 or $π$ is threaded through each plaquette and (ii) each nearest-neighbor link is decorated with an Ising degree of freedom that describes the local modulation of the hopping amplitude. Following the standard Ruderman--Kittel--Kasuya--Yosida (RKKY) approach, we compute an effective spin model in the coupling strength order by order. Unlike the original RRKY result for site-centered SU(2) spins in which the leading contribution is an effective exchange term at the second-order, perturbation theory in link-centered Z$_2$ case produces a first-order term that favors a collective ferromagnetic moment. If, by some means, an antiferromagnetic configuration can be stabilized, the energetics of ground state is controlled by an effective Ising interaction acting pairwise at the long range across the system.

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