1998/11/30 by F. Marsiglio, Marsiglio, F.
Chemistry · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Fullerene Chemistry and Applications #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9811424
8 pages, 7 figures, paper presented at the XXII School of Theoretical Physics, Ustron '98, "Quantum Coherence in Superconductors and Nanostructures"
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Since the discovery of superconductivity in the alkali-doped fullerenes \citehebard, the electron-phonon interaction has been the primary suspect for superconductivity in this class of compounds. In this paper we first provide a pedagogical review of how the question of mechanism has traditionally been settled, and then some well-known properties of the optical reflectance (and the derived conductance) are summarized. Finally we demonstrate how a recently derived inversion procedure can use the optical properties of a metal to infer the magnitude of the electron-phonon interaction. We conclude that in the case of the alkali-doped fullerenes, the electron-phonon interaction is sufficiently strong to explain the transition temperatues found in these the materials.