The two-phonon pairing mechanism in SrTiO3 gives a small, monotonically doping-dependent Tc because the attraction is controlled by high-energy phonons, not the soft mode.
Critical doping for the onset of a two-band superconducting ground state in SrTiO$_{3-\delta}$
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In doped SrTiO$_{3}$ superconductivity persists down to an exceptionally low concentration of mobile electrons. This restricts the relevant energy window and possible pairing scenarios. We present a study of quantum oscillations and superconducting transition temperature, $T_{c}$ as the carrier density is tuned from $10^{17}$ to $10^{20}$ $cm^{-3}$ and identify two critical doping levels corresponding to the filling thresholds of the upper bands. At the first critical doping, which separates the single-band and the two-band superconducting regimes in oxygen-deficient samples, the steady increase of T$_{c}$ with carrier concentration suddenly stops. Near this doping level, the energy dispersion in the lowest band displays a downward deviation from parabolic behavior. The results impose new constraints for microscopic pairing scenarios.
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Two-phonon pairing and superconductivity in $SrTiO_3$
The two-phonon pairing mechanism in SrTiO3 gives a small, monotonically doping-dependent Tc because the attraction is controlled by high-energy phonons, not the soft mode.