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Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high-T$_c$ superconductors, with experimentally observed critical temperatures near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Evgeny Plekhanov , Zelong Zhao , Francesco Macheda , Yao Wei , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

We employed a machine-learning assisted approach to search for superconducting hydrides under ambient pressure within an extensive dataset comprising over 150 000 compounds. Our investigation yielded around 50 systems with transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea , Antonio Sanna , Miguel A. L. Marques

Heavy plastic shear deformation at relatively low homologous temperatures is called high-pressure torsion (HPT) deformation, which is one method of severe plastic deformation (SPD). The aim of the paper is to give an overview of a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Andrea Bachmaier , Reinhard Pippan

Hydrides are considered to be one of the most promising families of compounds for achieving high temperature superconductivity. However, there are very few experimental reports of ambient-pressure hydride superconductivity, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-18 Antonio Sanna , Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Ekin Dogus Cubuk , Ion Errea , Yue-Wen Fang

Atomic metallic hydrogen with a lattice with FDDD symmetry is shown to have a stable phase under hydrostatic compression in the range of pressure 350 - 500 GPa.

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 Nikolay Degtyarenko , Evgeny Mazur , Constantin Grishakov

Hydrogen has been the essential element in the development of atomic and molecular physics1). Moving to the properties of dense hydrogen has appeared a good deal more complex than originally thought by Wigner and Hungtinton in their seminal…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 Paul Loubeyre , Florent Occelli , Paul Dumas

Improving hydrogen storage density is essential for reducing the extreme conditions required in applications such as nuclear fusion. However, the recognition of metallic hydrogen as the "Holy Grail" of high-pressure science highlights the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Baiqiang Liu , Chenxi Wan , Rui Liu , Zhen Gong , Jia Fan , Zhigang Wang

Superconductivity in the recently proposed ground-state structures of atomic metallic hydrogen is investigated over the pressure range 500 GPa to 3.5 TPa. Near molecular dissociation, the electron--phonon coupling $\lambda$ and renormalized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Jeffrey M. McMahon , David M. Ceperley

The work discusses specifics of phase transitions for metastable states of substances. The objects of condensed media physics are primarily equilibrium states of substances with metastable phases viewed as an exception, while the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Brazhkin

It has been suggested that hydrogen may metallise at lower pressures if it is ``precompressed''. Here we introduce a search strategy for predicting high-pressure structures and apply it to silane using first-principles electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris J. Pickard , R. J. Needs

In a recently published article [1], Ranga P. Dias & Isaac F. Silvera have reported the visual evidence of metallic hydrogen concomitantly with its characterization at a pressure of 495 GPa and low temperatures. We have expressed serious…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-24 Paul Loubeyre , Florent Occelli , Paul Dumas

The lack of thermal stability, originating from their metastable nature, has been one of the paramount obstacles that hinder the wide range of applications of metallic glasses. We report that the stability of a metallic glass can be…

Understanding the high-pressure behavior of C-H system is of great importance due to its key role in organic, bio-, petroleum and planetary chemistry. We have performed a systematic investigation of the pressure-composition phase diagram of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-07 Anastasia S. Naumova , Sergey V. Lepeshkin , Artem R. Oganov

Pressure-induced superconductivity and structural phase transitions in phosphorous (P) are studied by resistivity measurements under pressures up to 170 GPa and fully $ab-initio$ crystal structure and superconductivity calculations up to…

Binary hydrides formed by the pnictogens of phosphorus, arsenic and antimony are studied at high pressures using first principles methods. Stable structures are predicted and their electronic, vibrational and superconducting properties are…

In the quest to make metallic hydrogen at low temperatures a rich number of new phases have been found and the highest pressure ones have somewhat flat phase lines, around room temperature. We have studied hydrogen to static pressures of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-30 Ranga Dias , Ori Noked , Isaac F. Silvera

Atomic metallic hydrogen has been produced in the laboratory at high pressure and low temperature, prompting further investigations of its different properties. However, purely experimental approaches are infeasible because of the extreme…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-29 Bo Peng , Ke Xu , Hao Zhang , Hezhu Shao , Gang Ni , Jing Li , Liangcai Wu , Hongliang Lu , Qingyuan Jin , Heyuan Zhu

The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using \emph{ab initio} crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first-principles calculations has led to the \emph{in silico} discovery of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-25 Eva Zurek , Tiange Bi

Ab initio random structure searching with density functional theory was used to determine the zero-temperature structures of atomic metallic hydrogen from 500 GPa to 5 TPa. Including zero point motion in the harmonic approximation, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Jeffrey M. McMahon , David M. Ceperley

An ideal material for on-board hydrogen storage must release hydrogen at practical temperature and pressure and also regenerate efficiently under similarly gentle conditions. Therefore, thermodynamically, the hydride material must lie…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 T. A. Abtew , Bi-ching Shih , Pratibha Dev , Vincent H. Crespi , Peihong Zhang