possible negative hubbard U in potassium doped p-terphenyl

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Abstract

Recently, a possible organic superconductor, potassium doped p-terphenyl, which was recently reported to exhibit transition temperatures in the order of 120~K, draws people's interests. By optimizing the crystal structure of KC18H14, we noticed that half of the p-terphenyl molecules are nearly coplanar while another half of p-terphenyl molecules are still tilted, while our calculation about molecular KxC18H14 shows that benzene rings are almost coplanar in K2C18H14 but tilted obviously in C18H14. This intriguing phenomenon indicates that there might be a negative hubbard U in potassium doped p-terphenyl. Through mean field theory, we shows that superconductivity occurs in this possible neagtive-U system at low temperatures.


Presenters

  • Yuhao Gu

    Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS)

Authors

  • Yuhao Gu

    Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS)

  • Jiangping Hu

    Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS), Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS)

  • Hong Jiang

    CCME, Peking University