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Metallic hydrogen is capable of showing room temperature superconductivity, but its experimental syntheses are extremely hard. Therefore, it is desirable to reduce the synthesis pressure of metallic hydrogen by adding other chemical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-23 Zhongyu Wan , Ruiqin Zhang

Compressed hydrogen-rich compounds have received extensive attention as appealing contenders for superconductors, and further challenges are maintaining the stability and superconductivity of hydrides at lower pressures. In this work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Hao Song , Mingyang Du , Qiwen Jiang , Tiancheng Ma , Ming Xu , Tian Cui

Ternary hydrides have emerged as the primary focus of the new wave of research into superconducting hydrides. In this work, Mg-Ti-H ternary hydrides are explored under high pressures up to 300 GPa using the prediction method of the particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Pan Min , Wang Yujie , Hu Kaige , Deng Huiqiu

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

The search for room-temperature superconductors is a major challenge in modern physics. The discovery of copper-oxide superconductors in 1986 brought hope but also revealed complex mechanisms that are difficult to analyze and compute. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-26 Shiya Chen , Feng Zheng , Zhen Zhang , Shunqing Wu , Kai-Ming Ho , Vladimir Antropov , Yang Sun

We calculate superconducting transition temperatures ($T_{\rm c}$) in sulfur hydrides H$_{2}$S and H$_{3}$S from first principles using the density functional theory for superconductors. At pressures of $\lesssim$150 GPa, the high values of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-08 Ryosuke Akashi , Mitsuaki Kawamura , Shinji Tsuneyuki , Yusuke Nomura , Ryotaro Arita

The resistive transition width of a recently discovered room temperature near-ambient-pressure superconductor [1] changes by more than three orders of magnitude between different samples, with the transition temperature nearly unchanged.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 J. E. Hirsch

Niobium polyhydride was synthesized at high pressure and high temperature conditions by using diamond anvil cell combined with in situ high pressure laser heating techniques. High pressure electric transport experiments demonstrate that…

This article reports the experimentally clarified crystal structure of a recently discovered sulfur hydride in high temperature superconducting phase which has the highest critical temperature Tc over 200 K which has been ever reported. For…

The search for room-temperature superconducting materials has been at the center of modern research for decades. The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, under extreme pressure in hydrogen-rich materials, is a tremendous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-27 Theja N. De Silva

Search for new high-temperature superconductors and insight into their superconducting mechanism are of fundamental importance in condensed matter physics. The discovery of near-room temperature superconductivity at more than a million…

A maximum superconductive transition temperature $T_\textrm{C}$ = 203.5 K has recently been reported for a sample of the binary compound tri-hydrogen sulfide (H$_\textrm{3}$S) prepared at high pressure and with room temperature annealing.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-14 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

We investigate the possibility of achieving high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides under pressure by inducing metallization of otherwise insulating phases through doping, a path previously used to render standard semiconductors…

Metal superhydrides, known for their high hydrogen content and polyhedral hydrogen cages, are promising candidates for high-temperature superconductivity. Recent research has emphasized "chemical pre-compression," enabling hydrogen…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-06 Yuanhui Sun , Maosheng Miao

The recent discovery of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds has garnered significant experimental and theoretical interest because of the record-setting critical temperatures. As the direct observation of the superconducting (SC)…

Recently room temperature superconductivity with Tc=15 degrees Celsius has been discovered in a pressurized complex ternary hydride, CSHx, which is a carbon doped H3S alloy. The nanoscale structure of H3S is a particular realization of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-28 M. V. Mazziotti , T. Jarlborg , A. Bianconi , A. Valletta

Superconductivity has been one of the focal points in medium and high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs) since the first discovery of the HEA superconductor in 2014. Until now, most HEAs' superconducting transition temperature (Tc) has not exceeded…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingyong Zeng , Jie Wang , Hongyu Liu , Longfu Li , Jinjun Qin , Yucheng Li , Rui Chen , Jing Song , Yusheng Hou , Huixia Luo

Seven distinct families of superconductors with critical temperatures at ambient pressure that equal or surpass the historic 23 K limit for Nb3Ge have been discovered in the last 25 years. Each family is reviewed briefly and their common…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-09 J. Paul Attfield

The empirical relation of T_co(K)=2740/<q>_c^4 between the transition temperature of optimum doped superconductors T_co and the mean cationic charge <q>_c, a physical paradox, can be recast to strongly support fractal theories of high-T_c…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Hans Hermann Otto

Covalent and ionic polyhydrides have become the two main camps in searching for the high-temperature superconductors under pressure. They have been considered as important platforms for exploring ternary or multiple hydrides in order to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-31 Wuhao Chen , Xiaoli Huang , Dmitrii V. Semenok , Su Chen , Kexin Zhang , Artem R. Oganov , Tian Cui