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The binary polyhydrides of heavy rare earth lutetium that shares a similar valence electron configuration to lanthanum have been experimentally discovered to be superconductive. The lutetium polyhydrides were successfully synthesized at…

The era of near-room-temperature superconductivity started after experimental discovery by Drozdov et al (2015 Nature 525 73) who found that compressed H3S exhibits superconducting transition at Tc = 203 K. To date, the record…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-30 Evgueni F. Talantsev

Studies on polyhydrides are attracting growing attentions recently due to their potential high temperature superconductivity (SC). We here report the discovery of SC in hafnium polyhydrides at high pressures. The hafnium superhydrides are…

The discovery of near-room temperature superconductivity in the lanthanum hydride LaH$_{10}$ has revolutionized this field of research. However, the need to use diamond anvils for the synthesis of such superconductors severely limits the…

The flourishing rare earth superhydrides are a class of recently discovered materials that possess near-room-temperature superconductivity at high pressures, opening a new era of superconductivity research at high pressures. Among these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-12 Yingying Wang , Kui Wang , Yao Sun , Liang Ma , Yanchao Wang , Bo Zou , Guangtao Liu , Mi Zhou , Hongbo Wang

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

Recent predictions and experimental observations of high Tc superconductivity in hydrogen-rich materials at very high pressures are driving the search for superconductivity in the vicinity of room temperature. We have developed a novel…

Lanthanum (La) is the first member of the rare-earth series of elements that has recently raised considerable interest because of its unique high-Tc superhydride LaH10. Although several studies have found superconductivity and phase…

New stable thorium decahydride $Fm\bar{3}m$-$ThH_{10}$, a record high-temperature superconductor with $T_C$ up to 241 K ($-32^{\circ}C$), critical field $H_C$ up to 71T and superconducting gap ${\Delta_0}$ = 52 meV at 80-100 GPa was…

The discovery of clathrate superhydrides has approached the long-standing dream of room-temperature superconductivity and thus inspired their prosperous research under high pressure. However, how to experimentally optimize these compelling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-30 Jingkai Bi , Yuki Nakamoto , Katsuya Shimizu , Mi Zhou , Hongbo Wang , Guangtao Liu , Yanming Ma

In recent years, the resistance signature of the high temperature superconductivity above 250 K in highly compressed hydrides (more than 100 GPa) has garnered significant attention within the condensed matter physics community. This has…

The discovery of superconductivity in $\mathrm{YH_{9}}$ with a critical temperature of approximately $T_c\sim 243 \ K$ has opened a new window toward room temperature superconductivity. In this work, we employ the lowest order constrained…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 M. A. Rastkhadiv

Recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (Tc = 190 K) in sulfur hydrides at megabar pressures breaks the traditional belief on the Tc limit of 40 K for conventional superconductors, and open up the doors in searching new…

Recent discoveries involving high-temperature superconductivity in H3S and LaH10 have sparked a renewed interest in exploring the potential for superconductivity within hydrides. These superconductors require extremely high-pressure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-13 Mohammad Amin Rastkhadiv , Meysam Pazoki

Hydrogen-based superconductors provide a route to the long-sought goal of room-temperature superconductivity, but the high pressures required to metallize these materials limit their immediate application. For example, carbonaceous sulfur…

Noble metals adopt close-packed structures at ambient pressure and rarely undergo structural transformation at high pressures. Platinum (Pt), in particular, is normally considered to be unreactive and is therefore not expected to form…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Duck Young Kim , Ralph H. Scheicher , Chris J. Pickard , R. J. Needs , R. Ahuja

The discovery of superconductivity at 203 K in H3S brought attention back to conventional superconductors whose properties can be described by the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) and the Migdal-Eliashberg theories. These theories predict…

Motivated by the recent claim of hot superconductivity with critical temperatures up to 550 K in La + x hydrides (arXiv:2006.03004), we investigate the high-pressure phase diagram of possible compounds that may have formed in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-15 Simone Di Cataldo , Wolfgang von der Linden , Lilia Boeri

We report the synthesis and characterization of (La0.9Y0.1)H10 superhydrides exhibiting coexisting cubic Fm-3m and hexagonal P63/mmc clathrate phases observed over the pressure range from 168 GPa down to 136 GPa. Using synchrotron-based…

The search for high-temperature superconductors in hydrides under high pressure has always been a research hotspot. Hydrogen-based superconductors offer an avenue to achieve the long-sought goal of superconductivity at room temperature. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-22 Ming Xu , Defang Duan , Wendi Zhao , Decheng An , Hao Song , Tian Cui