Light elements such as H, Li and B in metallic compounds have attracted considerable attention due to their potential superconducting properties   . Within the weak-coupling BCS theory, high frequency phonons due to the presence of light mass atoms ensure a definite contribution to the BCS formula for the superconducting critical temperature Tc. Thus even a moderate electron-phonon Coupling can yield a sizeable Tc   . The discovery of superconductivity in MgB2  , B-doped diamond  , B-doped silicon  and other compounds  confirms this picture and extends it by showing that strong co-valent bonds between light atoms can provide a large contribution to the electronic density of states at the Fermi level, under proper doping conditions. In B-doped diamond, substitutional boron atoms provide hole-doping to the sp3 covalent bonds. The strong C-C bonding allows the structure to remain stable even at high doping.
Nitrogen follows carbon in the first row of the periodic table and is characterized, in its elemental form, by a strong triple bond in the low pressure molecular phases, and by single covalent bonds in the non-molecular phase which is stable at pressures exceeding a mega-bar  . As a consequence, molecular phases are insulating and non-molecular phase is semi-conducting  . In fact, search for superconductivity in nitrogen-based systems requires the identification of compounds where covalent bonds between nitrogen atoms persist in a stable form in the presence of doping species. Experimental studies have shown that the high-frequency modes originating from the covalently bonded N2 units are strongly coupled to the electronic states at the Fermi surface and would give rise to a Tc of about 1 K and the superconducting temperature can be greatly increased by hole-doping  . It is found that on changing the distance between nitrogen atoms in the N-N units along with the x-y polarized mode, the most relevant change in the Fermi surface (FS) is the migration of electrons from the bands that contain the hole pockets.
Study of the electronic density of states (DOS) of OSN2 suggests that hole-doping could further enhance Tc. Hole doping lowers the Fermi level towards a region of higher electronic density and would at the same time stiffen the N-N bonds by partially emptying the anti-bonding states below . Consequences of hole-doping were studied with a hole-doping of 0.5 holes per unit cell in an alloy OS0.75Re0.25N2 composition. It was found that the density of states at FS increases by about 2.4 times with respect to the undoped case. Consequently, the superconducting critical temperature for a doped OSN2 increases and .
Thus it was concluded that OSN2 is a superconductor and that its superconducting properties are connected to a strong coupling between the stretching modes of the covalently bonded N2 units with the electronic states at the Fermi level. This is similar to what has been observed in a number of boron- and carbon-based compounds, including MgB2. It is also predicted that the superconducting transition temperature can increase in OSN2 by doping it with holes. Experimentally, it can be achieved by synthesizing the nitride starting from a hole-doped OS alloy.
Another analysis that supports the role of holes in determining or obtaining the superconducting state is due to the co-existence of electrons and holes in high-Tc superconducting materials superconducting materials in normal state  . DC resistivity and Hall Effect for cuprates based in Y or on Bi/Sr find nearly linear-in-T temperature dependences in the resistivity (the symbol shown). The hole-number density nH is given by:
where is the Hall coefficient and e is the elementary charge (positive by convention)  . Discovery of these results in YBa2Cu3O7−δ prompted the early speculations on the electron hole co-existence in the a-b plane transport to explains the near-linear temperature dependence of , ascribing the positive and temperature dependence of to dominance of transport by holes over electrons by differing velocities.
Various theoretical models have been proposed to explain the DC Hall Effect based on electron-hole interpretation. The temperature dependence in is assumed to arise from temperature-dependent anisotropy of the scattering length (velocity-scattering time product) around the Fermi contour  . Another approach was when the energy levels E above the saddle point Es of a single CuO2 band are treated as a hole-like and levels as electron-like  . The temperature dependence of is then contained in an ad-hoc model for energy dependence in scattering anisotropy. However introducing two carrier bands, one of electrons and one of holes, one can study the temperature dependence in , and the resistivity and hall effect can be modelled with two band carriers; holes and electrons; and also the relationship to the superconducting state can be understood.
1.1. Superconducting States
One of the puzzles of high-Tc superconductivity is that the residual ac conductivity at low temperature in the limit of zero frequency cannot be explained for moderate impurity scattering (within the context of either the d-wave or s-wave pairing), and suggests the presence of a component with substantial pair breaking in the superconducting state  . Allowing for co-existence of electrons and holes bands can solve this problem. A large number of attempts  -  were made to study the low-temperature thermal properties, Hall effect and resistivity of superconducting materials and these studies pointed to the presence of electrons co-existing with the superconducting condensate of holes and maintained in metastable states via strong scattering the normal state resistivity and Hall effect in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ and YBa2Cu3O7−δ could be modelled by reducing the band structures of these high-Tc compounds to two components comprising of holes and electrons in co-existence  . It provided explanation for temperature dependence in the Hall coefficient and the presence of electrons due to existence of negative Hall mobility intercept . A large number of samples of YB2Cu3O7−δ were studied to study the DC Hall effect and to confirm the presence of at least two bands with oppositely signed Hall coefficients. In the analysis it was found that taking the Hall number densities of electrons and holes to be equal is sufficient for agreement with the experiment  . Thus, the theoretical and experimental studies conducted so far sufficiently confirm the co-existence of holes and electrons in high-Tc superconductors and such a concept can be used to study some of the properties of superconductors such as resistivity and Hall Effect.
1.2. Theoretical Derivations
The Lorentz force, F acting on an electron of charge e moving with velocity v perpendicular to the applied magnetic field B, with electric field E, acting on the electron is:
when the downward force is balanced by the upward force of developed transverse field, the resultant force is zero. Thus,
If d is the width of the metal bar, then the potential difference, U, developed across the bar is
Now, the current density, , along the x-axis is
where N is the number of charge carriers per cm3 or it is also called Hall number density. We can now write,
where is called the Hall coefficient or constant and it is negative for most metals where the current is carried by the electrons that have negative charge. For some metals like Be, Zn, Cd; is positive indicating that the current is also carried by a positive charge.
1.3. Two-Band Model: Resistivity and Hall Coefficient
In the normal state, the electrical transport properties in the a-b plane of YBa2Cu3O7 − δ are consistent with a two-band model comprising electrons and holes as charge carriers of opposite signs. In the distorted OSN2 crystal, the most relevant change in the Fermi surface (FS) is the migration of electrons from the bands that contain the hole pockets to the bands that contain the electron pockets. Thus, the electron-hole co-existence will be relevant in the study of resistivity and Hall coefficient.
Now, the electrical resistivity can be modelled with parallel transport by electrons and holes. Writing the electron resistivity as and that of holes as , the net resistance R of the parallel resistance circuit can be written as
We can now apply the two-band model to the specific cases of the DC and AC Hall Effect.
1.4. DC Hall Effect Coefficient
If is the Hall coefficient for electrons and is the Hall coefficient for holes, then using the two-band model, the Hall coefficient of the material can be written as
where is to be negative, is to be positive and both quantities are to be temperature-independent constants of the materials under consideration. To apply Equation (8) to describe the measured Hall coefficient, it should be understood that the Hall scattering rate is a function of the hole and electron resistivity components which determine the scattering rates for electrical transport. The model takes into account that and can vary with T in the normal state and is positive. In fact we cannot assume any definite functional form for and since the temperature dependences are not identical among various types of specimens. Moreover, in the two-band behaviour, Hall Effect analysis does not convey information on carrier concentrations.
We define T-dependent variables as
And T-independent constant as,
Between Equation (3) and Equation (4) we can write
Similarly, using Equation (4) to eliminate from Equation (3), we get
Now we can write
Dividing both sides by gives
Substituting for and using Equation (12) and Equation (13) into Equation (15), we have
Equation (16) leads to the following information and analysis. If is positive, then w is positive since is positive. Equation (16) then gives that . If the two Hall coefficient components are equal, then and then we can define a single Hall constant as . FROM Equation (8) it is clear that the quantities and are strongly correlated (almost linearly) so that the cases for can be obtained by scaling . Now for and ( or ) it will mean that . In such a case, will have a weaker temperature dependence than ( ). The simplest model for temperature dependence of electronic component of resistivity is a linear function of temperature, T, containing two adjustable parameters, i.e.
where is a dimensionless variable. The temperature dependent hole resistivity is determined from the solution of Equation (7) since will be known from Equation (18). This gives as
1.5. AC Hall Effect: Hall Angle and Scattering Rates
The Hall angle components ( ) are defined as
where are the Hall frequencies and are the scattering rates. B is the applied magnetic field. For , the Hall angle in High-Tc superconductors is low compared to unity, so that can be written as
Now, using Equation (8) and Equation (9),
In the model considered (two-band model), the resistivity components are expressed in terms of the scattering rates as,
where are the effective masses and are the Hall carrier densities of holes and electrons. The expressions for the whole angle can now be written in the form
Substituting Equation (23) into Equation (24) gives
We now introduce two parameters, one for the ratio of masses and the ratio of carrier densities and re-write Equation (25) as
where and is the rest mass of the electron and the sign of is negative for the electron component since the charge on the electron is (-e).
2. Results and Discussion
Equation (12) and Equation (13) have been used to plot the graph of resistivity ( ) as a function of in Figure 1 for the temperature range 95 K to 190 K experimental results have shown that and  . The plot in Figure 1 shows a linear dependence of electron resistivity on u and a nonlinear dependence of hole resistivity on u. The values of and over the temperature range 95 K to 190 K are 323 μΩ∙cm to 490 μΩ∙cm and 217 μΩ∙cm to 176 μΩ∙cm respectively. This means that as temperature increases from 95 K to 190 K, electron resistivity increases while hole resistivity deceases.
Equation (14) has been used to plot the graph of Hall coefficient ( ) as a function of hole resistivity ( ) in Figure 2. For a temperature range of 95 K to 190 K, experimental results reveal that ; and  . The graph in Figure 2 shows that there is a non-linear dependence by Hall coefficient on the hole resistivity. In the temperature under consideration, varies between 0.0068 to 0.0052. Clearly, an increase in the hole resistivity leads to a drop in the Hall coefficient.
Equation (25) has been used to plot the graph of Hall scattering angle ( ) as a function of hole scattering rate ( ) in Figure 3. Experimentally, ; ; ; ; and = 112 cm−1 to 200 cm−1
 . The graph in Figure 2 shows that there is a non-linear dependence by Hall
Figure 1. A graph of resistivity ( ) as a function of .
Figure 2. A graph of Hall coefficient ( ) as a function of hole resistivity .
Figure 3. A graph of Hall scattering angle ( ) as a function of hole scattering rate .
coefficient on the hole resistivity. In the temperature under consideration, varies between 0.0016 to 0.0011. An increase in the hole scattering rate lowers the Hall scattering angle.
Figure 1 shows that hole resistivity with increase in u electron resistivity is linearly dependent on u. These two observations imply that as the temperature increases, hole resistivity decreases while the electron resistivity decreases. When the temperature decreases up to Tc, electron resistivity fall to almost zero and the material turns into a superconductor. In Figure 2, the Hall coefficient decreases with hole resistivity while the Hall scattering angle in Figure 3 decreases with increase in Hall scattering rate.
In summary, it has been found that as the temperature rises, above the critical temperature of a superconductor, the hole resistivity reduces while the electron resistivity increases. As the hole resistivity increases towards the critical temperature from the temperature , a non-linear drop in the Hall coefficient is recorded. Finally, the dependence of the Hall scattering angle on the scattering rate is found to be nonlinear.
I am grateful to Professor K. M. Khanna in the Department of Physics in the University of Eldoret for his professional input in this research. I also wish to thank Mr. A. Mukubwa for support and linking me to the Open Access Library Journal.
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