TY - JOUR
T1 - Reply to “Comment on ‘First-principles calculation of the superconducting transition in MgB2 within the anisotropic Eliashberg formalism’”
AU - Choi, Hyoung Joon
AU - Roundy, David
AU - Sun, Hong
AU - Cohen, Marvin L.
AU - Louie, Steven G.
PY - 2004/2/6
Y1 - 2004/2/6
N2 - The preceding comment by Mazin et al. on our work makes two claims: (1) the calculated variations of the superconducting energy gap within the σ or the π bands are not observable in real samples due to scatterings, and (2) the Coulomb repulsion μ(k, k’) is negligibly small between σ and π states and thus should be approximated by a diagonal 2 × matrix in the σ and π channels. Here, we point out that the former does not affect the validity of our theoretical work, which is for the clean limit, and that the latter is based on an oversimplified estimation of μ.
AB - The preceding comment by Mazin et al. on our work makes two claims: (1) the calculated variations of the superconducting energy gap within the σ or the π bands are not observable in real samples due to scatterings, and (2) the Coulomb repulsion μ(k, k’) is negligibly small between σ and π states and thus should be approximated by a diagonal 2 × matrix in the σ and π channels. Here, we point out that the former does not affect the validity of our theoretical work, which is for the clean limit, and that the latter is based on an oversimplified estimation of μ.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.056502
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.056502
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:1642385469
VL - 69
JO - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
SN - 0163-1829
IS - 5
ER -