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Superconductivity in atom-intercalated quaternary hydrides under ambient pressure

Superconductivity 2025-08-18 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Hydrogen-rich materials are the most promising candidates for high-temperature conventional superconductors under ambient pressure. Multinary hydrides have abundant structural configurations and are more promising to find high-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure, but searching for multinary materials in complex phase space is a great challenge. In this work, we used our developed AI search engine (InvDesFlow) to perform extensive investigations regarding ambient stable superconducting hydrides. Several quaternary hydrides with high superconducting temperature~(TcT_c) are predicted. In particular, the superconducting TcT_c of K2_2GaCuH6_6 and K2_2LiCuH6_6 are calculated to be 68~K and 53~K under ambient pressure, respectively, which shows a significant enhancement in comparison with that of K2_2CuH6_6~(TcT_c \sim 16~K). We also find that intercalating atoms could cause phonon softening and induce more phonon modes with strong electron-phonon coupling. Hence, we propose that intercalating atoms is a feasible approach in searching for superconducting quaternary hydrides.

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@article{arxiv.2508.10912,
  title  = {Superconductivity in atom-intercalated quaternary hydrides under ambient pressure},
  author = {Bo-Wen Yao and Zhenfeng Ouyang and Xiao-Qi Han and Chang-Jiang Wu and Peng-Jie Guo and Ze-Feng Gao and Zhong-Yi Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10912},
  year   = {2025}
}

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