TY  - JOUR
AU  - Aceves Rodriguez, Uriel Allan
AU  - Guimarães, Filipe Souza Mendes
AU  - Lounis, Samir
TI  - Superconductivity in Nb: Impact of Temperature, Dimensionality and Cooper-Pairing
JO  - Nanomaterials
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SN  - 2079-4991
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - FZJ-2024-01496
SP  - 254 -
PY  - 2024
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 38334524
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001161002800001
DO  - DOI:10.3390/nano14030254
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1022506
ER  -