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We designed and investigated a series of ternary hydride compounds MXH$_{12}$ crystallizing in the cubic $Pm\overline{3}m$ structure as potential rare-earth and alkaline-earth superconductors. First-principles calculations were performed on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-02 Yuxiang Fan , Bin Li , Cong Zhu , Jie Cheng , Shengli Liu , Zhixiang Shi

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

The recent report of near-ambient superconductivity in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydrides (Lu-N-H) has generated a great interest. However, conflicting results have raised doubts regarding superconductivity. Here, we combine high-throughput…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Yue-Wen Fang , Ðorđe Dangić , Ion Errea

The ab initio calculations suggest that the superconducting state in CaH6 under the pressure at 150 GPa has the highest critical temperature among the examined hydrogen-rich compounds. For this reason, the relevant thermodynamic parameters…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-17 R. Szczesniak , A. P. Durajski

Pressure-stabilized hydrides are a new rapidly growing class of high-temperature superconductors which is believed to be described within the conventional phonon-mediated mechanism of coupling. Here we report the synthesis of yttrium…

The search for conventional superconductors with high transition temperatures ($T_c$) has largely focused on intrinsically metallic compounds. In this work, we explore the potential of intrinsically non-metallic compounds to exhibit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Haowei Xu , Olivia Schneble , Rafael Jaramillo , Marek Polański , Ju Li

Following the recent discovery of very high temperature conventional superconductivity in sulfur hydride (critical temperature Tc of 203 K, Ref1) we searched for superconductivity in other hydrides and found that a covalent hydride…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-26 A. P. Drozdov , M. I. Eremets , I. A. Troyan

High transition temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity is associated with layered crystal structures. This work considers superconductivity in ultra-thin crystals (of thickness equal to the transverse structural periodicity distance d for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-03 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

First-principles calculations were carried out to provide a chemical basis for proposed structures associated with the recently reported room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride material under pressure.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-28 Xiaoyu Wang , Tiange Bi , Katerina P. Hilleke , Anmol Lamichhane , Russell J. Hemley , Eva Zurek

Multi-hydrogen lanthanum hydrides have shown the highest critical temperature $T_c$ at 250-260 K under 170-200 GPa. However, such high pressure is a great challenge for sample preparation and practical application. To address this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-22 Yong He , Jing Lu , Xinqiang Wang , Jun-jie Shi

Hydrogen in metals is a significant research area with far-reaching implications, encompassing diverse fields such as hydrogen storage, metal-insulator transitions, and the recently emerging phenomenon of room-temperature ($\textit{$T_C$}$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-30 Heejung Kim , Ina Park , J. H. Shim , D. Y. Kim

Recent studies of hydrogen-dominant (superhydride) materials, such as LaH10 have led to putative discoveries of near-room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 250 K observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-26 Xuejie Li , Wenbo zhao , Yuzhou Hao , Xiaoying Wang , Zhibin Gao , Xiangdong Ding

In 2023, superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ was discovered under high pressures above approximately 14 GPa. In addition to its high transition temperature ($T_{\mathrm{c}} \simeq 80$ K), the structural resemblance to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-19 Hiroya Sakurai , Yoshihiko Takano

The discovery of a superconducting phase in sulfur hydride under high pressure with a critical temperature above 200 K has provided a new impetus to the search for even higher $T_c$. Theory predicted and experiment confirmed that the phase…

The observation of superconductivity in hydride-based materials under ultrahigh pressures (for example, H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$) has fueled the interest in a more data-driven approach to discovering new high-pressure hydride superconductors.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-04 Daniel Wines , Kamal Choudhary

Hydrogen sulfides have recently received a great deal of interest due to the record high superconducting temperatures of up to 203 K observed on strong compression of dihydrogen sulfide (H2S). A joint theoretical and experimental study is…

This article updates version 1 by restricting consideration to only the resistive data and excluding the questioned 287.7-K datum reported for carbonaceous sulfur hydride in Snider et al., Nature $\textbf{585}$, 373 (2020). The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-18 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

The lanthanum-hydrogen system has attracted significant attention following the report of superconductivity in LaH10 at near-ambient temperatures and high pressures. Here, we present the results of our single-crystal X-ray diffraction…

The quest for room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-standing aspiration in the field of materials science, driving extensive research efforts. In this work, we present a novel hydride, YSc$_2$H$_{24}$, which is stable at high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Truong-Tho Pham , Viet-Ha Chu , Duc-Long Nguyen

The high critical superconducting temperatures ($T_c$s) of metal hydride phases with clathrate-like hydrogen networks have generated great interest. Herein, we employ the Density Functional Theory-Chemical Pressure (DFT-CP) method to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-25 Katerina P. Hilleke , Eva Zurek