Pseudopotential in the study of superconducting state parameters of metallic glasses

Abstract A well recognized model potential is used to study the superconducting state parameters (SSP) viz. electron–phonon coupling strength λ , Coulomb pseudopotential μ ∗ , transition temperature T C , isotope effect exponent α and effective interaction strength N 0 V of some binary metallic glasses of simple, non-simple and transition metals. Five local field correction functions proposed by Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru–Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) are used in the present investigation to study the screening influence on the aforesaid properties. Instead of using Vegard’s law, pseudo-alloy-atom model (PAA) in the present investigation is proposed and found successful. The present results of the SSP are found in qualitative agreement with other such earlier reported data wherever exist, which confirms the superconducting phase in the metallic glasses.