{"paper":{"title":"Silicene and Germanene as prospective playgrounds for Room Temperature Superconductivity","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.supr-con"],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.str-el","authors_text":"G. Baskaran","submitted_at":"2013-09-09T17:58:58Z","abstract_excerpt":"Combining theory and certain striking phenomenology we suggest that silicene and germanene are \\textit{elemental Mott insulators} and abode of doping induced high Tc superconductivity. In our theory, a 3 fold reduction in silicene $\\pi - \\pi^*$ band width, in comparison to graphene, and short range coulomb interactions enable Mott localization. Recent experimental results are invoked to provide support for our Mott insulator model: i) a significant $\\pi$-band narrowing, in silicene on ZrB$_2$ seen in ARPES, ii) a superconducting gap appearing below 35 K with a large $\\frac{2\\Delta}{k_BTc}\\sim$"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1309.2242","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}