%0 Journal Article
%A Aceves Rodriguez, Uriel Allan
%A Guimarães, Filipe Souza Mendes
%A Lounis, Samir
%T Superconductivity in Nb: Impact of Temperature, Dimensionality and Cooper-Pairing
%J Nanomaterials
%V 14
%N 3
%@ 2079-4991
%C Basel
%I MDPI
%M FZJ-2024-01496
%P 254 -
%D 2024
%X The ability to realistically simulate the electronic structure of superconducting materials is important to understand and predict various properties emerging in both the superconducting topological and spintronics realms. We introduce a tight-binding implementation of the Bogoliubov–de Gennes method, parameterized from density functional theory, which we utilize to explore the bulk and thin films of Nb, known to host a significant superconducting gap. The latter is useful for various applications such as the exploration of trivial and topological in-gap states. Here, we focus on the simulation’s aspects of superconductivity and study the impact of temperature, Cooper-pair coupling and dimensionality on the value of the superconducting pairing interactions and gaps.
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%9 Journal Article
%$ 38334524
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001161002800001
%R 10.3390/nano14030254
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1022506