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Recent discovery of superconductive rare earth/actinide superhydrides has ushered in a new era of superconductivity research at high pressures. This distinct type of clathrate metal hydrides was first proposed for alkaline-earth-metal…

Compressed hydrides are promising candidates for high-temperature superconductivity, yet achieving simultaneous structural stability and high-Tc at low pressures remains challenging. Here, we introduce a new mechanism for accomplishing this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-17 Wendi Zhao , Shumin Guo , Chengda Li , Abhiyan Pandit , Tian Cui , Defang Duan , Maosheng Miao

High pressure plays a crucial role in the field of superconductivity. Compressed hydride superconductors are leaders in the race for a material that can conduct electricity without resistance at high or even room temperature. In the present…

Under the weak coupling, we investigate the critical temperatures under pressure of H3S, LaH10, CaH6, and Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8+{\delta} superconductors. The superconducting mechanism takes into account the electron-phonon interaction as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-26 P. Tongkhonburi , P. Udomsamuthirun , A. Changjan , T. Kruaehong

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

Crossing point phenomena are one of the interesting and still puzzling effects in strongly correlated electron systems. We have synthesized RuSr2Gd1.4Ce0.6Cu2O10-{\delta} (GdRu-1222) magneto-superconductor through standard solid state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 Anuj Kumar , R. P. Tandon , Jianli Wang , Rong Zeng , V. P. S. Awana

Hydrogen-rich compounds have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally in the quest for novel high-temperature superconductors. Reports on sulfur-hydride attaining metallicity under pressure and exhibiting…

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

High-pressure hydrogen-rich compounds have long been regarded as promising room-temperature superconductor candidates; however, their practical applications are limited by their reliance on extreme compression. This study explores…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-04 Qun Wei , Xinyu Wang , Jing Luo , Meiguang Zhang , Bing Wei

High-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) remains one of the most challenging and fascinating mysteries in condensed matter physics. Recently, superconductivity with transition temperature exceeding liquid-nitrogen temperature is discovered…

An analysis of experimental heat capacity at $T>T_{c}$ is presented for series of samples $(R)Ba_2Cu_3O_{6+x}$ (with $x$ close to optimal). For all samples the anomaly was discovered which occurred steadily in the interval 250-290 K…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Naumov , G. I. Frolova , T. Atake , V. V. Nogteva , N. A. Nemov , M. A. Bespyatov , V. G. Potemkin

In unconventional superconductors, it is generally believed that understanding the physical properties of the normal state is a pre-requisite for understanding the superconductivity mechanism. In conventional superconductors like niobium or…

The high pressure phases of HBr are explored with an ab initio crystal structure search. By taking into account the contribution of zero-point energy (ZPE), we find that the P4/nmm phase of HBr is thermodynamically stable in the pressure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-31 Qinyan Gu , Pengchao Lu , Kang Xia , Jian Sun , Dingyu Xing

We report the temperature dependence of the upper critical fields $\mu_0H_{c2}(T)$ of the high temperature superconductor H$_3$S under applied pressures of 155 and 160 GPa through the electrical resistance transition observed under DC and…

We report the experimental discovery of superconductivity with critical temperature Tc above 70 K in zirconium polyhydrides, the record high so far for 3d transition metal hydrides. The superconducting zirconium polyhydrides are synthesized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-01 C. L. Zhang , X. He , Z. W. Li , S. J. Zhang , S. M. Feng , X. C. Wang , R. C. Yu , C. Q. Jin

The emergence of high transition temperature (Tc) superconductivity in strongly correlated materials remains a major unsolved problem in physics. High-Tc materials, such as cuprates, are generally complex and not easily tunable, making…

The recently discovered quaternary arsenide oxide superconductor La[O1-xFx]FeAs with the superconducting critical transition temperature (Tc) of 26 K [1], has been quickly expanded to another high-Tc superconducting system beyond copper…

Exploration of superconductivity in light element compounds has drawn considerable attention because those materials can easily realize the high $T_{c}$ superconductivity, such as ${\mathrm{LnNi}}_{2}{\mathrm{B}_{2}}{\mathrm{C}}$ ($T_{c}$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-08 W. Wu , Y. J. Li , J. H. Zhang , Z. H. Yu , Z. Y. Liu , P. Zheng , H. X. Yang , C. Dong , K. Liu , T. Xiang , J. L. Luo

Unconventional superconductivity has long been believed to arise from a lab-grown correlated electronic system. Here we report compelling evidence of unconventional nodal superconductivity in a mineral superconductor \rhs. We investigated…

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