Reconstruction of the conduction band in metallic hydrogen sulfide

Abstract

The theory of the normal properties of a metal generalized to the case of particular properties of an electron band with a finite width for electron–phonon systems with a varying electron density of states has been used to study the normal state of the SH3 phase of hydrogen sulfide at a pressure of 225 GPa and a temperature of 200 K. The frequency dependences of the real, ReΣ(ω), and imaginary, ImΣ(ω), parts of the selfenergy part of the Green’s function of the electron Σ(ω), as well as the electron density of states N(e) of the Im–3m stable orthorhombic structure of SH3 hydrogen sulfide at a pressure of P = 225 GPa, which is renormalized by the strong electron–phonon coupling, have been calculated. It has been established that a part of the electron conduction band of the SH3 phase of hydrogen sulfide adjacent to the Fermi level undergoes renormalization-induced reconstruction in the form of a number of energy pockets with the widths equal to fractions of the characteristic phonon energies of the system.