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Superconductor research has traditionally depended on experiments and theoretical approaches. However, the rapid advancement of data-driven methods and machine learning (ML) has opened avenues for accelerating superconductor discovery.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Xiaoying Li , Wenqian Tu , Run Lv , Li'e Liu , Dingfu Shao , Yuping Sun , Wenjian Lu

Here, we report the discovery of superconductivity in a new transition metal-chalcogenide compound, i.e. Nb2Pd0.81S5, with a transition temperature Tc > 6.6 K. Despite its relatively low Tc, it displays remarkably high and anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-14 Q. Zhang , G. Li , D. Rhodes , A. Kiswandhi , T. Besara , B. Zeng , J. Sun , T. Siegrist , M. D. Johannes , L. Balicas

The recently discovered superconductivity in MgB2 has captured world attention due to its simple crystal structure and relatively high superconducting transition temperature Tc=39K. It appears to be generally accepted that it is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. I. Posazhennikova , T. Dahm , K. Maki

Superconductivity of the second kind was observed in many 3D Weyl and Dirac semi-metals. However in PdT e2, superconductivity is clearly of the first kind. This is very rare in Dirac semi - metals, but is expected in clean conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Ya. Shapiro , I. Shapiro , Dingping Li , Baruch Rosenstein

Dense pure and doped (Mg1-xAx)B2 samples with A = Na, Ca, Cu, Ag, Zn and Al were synthesized at high pressure - high temperature in a multi anvils press (3.5-6 GPa, 900-1000C) for x up to 0.20. They were studied by x-ray diffraction,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Toulemonde , N. Musolino , H. L. Suo , R. Flukiger

Short review of the topical comprehension of the superconductor materials classes Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors, other oxide superconductors, Iron-based Superconductors, Heavy-Fermion Superconductors, Nitride Superconductors,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-29 Roland Hott , Reinhold Kleiner , Thomas Wolf , Gertrud Zwicknagl

The only alkali metal known to be superconducting at ambient pressure is Li at 0.4 mK. Under 30 GPa pressure \textit{T}$_{c}$ for Li rises to 14 K. In addition, nearly 50 years ago the heavy alkali metal Cs was reported to become…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 Yuhang Deng , James S. Schilling

We report the discovery of superconductivity at Tc = 3.7 K in the new ternary lithium silicide Li2IrSi3. The crystal structure of Li2IrSi3 consists of IrSi6 antiprisms connected by Si triangles, giving rise to a three dimensional framework…

The discovery of cuprate high Tc superconductors has inspired searching for unconventional su- perconductors in magnetic materials. A successful recipe has been to suppress long-range order in a magnetic parent compound by doping or high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 Wei Bao , Q. Huang , G. F. Chen , M. A. Green , D. M. Wang , J. B. He , X. Q. Wang , Y. Qiu

Dome-shape superconductivity phase diagram can commonly be observed in cuprate and iron-based systems via tuning parameters such as charge carrier doping, pressure, bond angle, and etc. We report doping electrons from transition-metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-12 W. Zhou , X. Z. Xing , H. J. Zhao , Z. X. Shi , K. Yamaura

We perform a large scale study of conventional superconducting materials using a machine-learning accelerated high-throughput workflow. We start by creating a comprehensive dataset of around 7000 electron-phonon calculations performed with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-21 Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Antonio Sanna , Miguel A. L. Marques

Despite growing interest in them, highly crystalline two-dimensional superconductors derived from exfoliated layered materials are few. Employing the anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg formalism based on {\it ab initio} calculations, we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-01 Feipeng Zheng , Xi-Bo Li , Yiping Lin , Lingxiao Xiong , Ji Feng

The electronic band structures of the new superconducting (with T_c up to 7.7K) ternary silicides M(A_{0.5}Si_{0.5})_2 (M= Ca, Sr, Ba; A= Al, Ga) in the AlB_2-type structure have been investigated using the full-potential LMTO method. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 I. R. Shein , N. I. Medvedeva , A. L. Ivanovskii

We present the crystal structure and low temperature electronic transport properties of the intermetallic commonly known as BeB_2. In contrast to the much simpler AlB_2-type structure of the 39K superconductor MgB_2, BeB_2 forms a complex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. P. Young , P. W. Adams , J. Y. Chan , F. R. Fronczek

The discovery of new high-temperature superconductors is one of the most critical problems in materials, chemistry, and physics. This work systematically investigates fluorite-like structures of XBeH8 (X is Ac, Th, Pa, U, and Np) to gain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-07 Zhongyu Wan , Tianyi Yang , Wenjun Xu , Ruiqin Zhang

We have studied the variation of Tc with charge density and lattice parameters in Mg1-xAlxB2 superconducting samples at low Al doping x<8%. We show that high Tc occurs where the chemical potential is tuned at a "superconducting shape…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-01 A. Bianconi , D. Di Castro , S. Agrestini , G. Campi , N. L. Saini , A. Saccone , S. De Negri , M. Giovannini

High quality, ultrathin, superconducting films are required for advanced devices such as hot-electron bolometers, superconducting nanowire single photon detectors, and quantum applications. Using Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition…

Metastable superconductivity at 39 - 54 K in the interfaces formed by metallic and oxidized magnesium (MgO) has been observed by ac magnetic susceptibility measurements. The superconducting interfaces have been produced by the surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-27 N. S. Sidorov , A. V. Palnichenko , S. S. Khasanov

While great scientific efforts focus on the synthesis and studies of near-room-temperature (NRT) superconductors exhibited record superconducting transition temperatures (for instance, laser annealed H3S, LaH10 and YHn (n = 4,6,7,9) with Tc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-21 E. F. Talantsev

We report on measurements of the magnetic moment in superconducting MgB2 single crystals. We find \mu_0H_{c2}^c(0) = 3.2 T, \mu_0H_{c2}^{ab}(0) = 14.5 T, \gamma = 4.6, \mu_0H_c(0) = 0.28 T, and \kappa(T_c) = 4.7. The standard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Zehetmayer , M. Eisterer , H. W. Weber , J. Jun , S. M. Kazakov , J. Karpinski , A. Wisniewski