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Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are promising high-Tc superconductors, with superconductivity experimentally observed near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high pressures, e.g. LaH10 at 170 GPa…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-14 Yao Wei , Francesco Macheda , Zelong Zhao , Terence Tse , Evgeny Plekhanov , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

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

We present a comprehensive computational investigation of electron-phonon interactions in MXH$_3$ hydride compounds, where $M$ represents alkali and post-transition metals, and $X$ denotes 3$d$, 4$d$, and 5$d$ transition metals. Our density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-23 Bin Li , Cong Zhu , Junjie Zhai , Chuanhui Yin , Yuxiang Fan , Jie Cheng , Shengli Liu , Zhixiang Shi

Recent renewal of the highest transition temperature in a conventional superconductor of the sulfer hydride attracts much attention to exploring simple compounds with the lighter elements, situated in unconventional conditions. We report…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-11 K. Yoshimatsu , O. Sakata , A. Ohtomo

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…

Superconductivity has been observed in doped SrTiO$_3$ at charge-carrier densities below 10$^{18}$ cm$^{-3}$, where the density of states at the Fermi level of the itinerant electrons is several orders of magnitude lower than that of…

Discovery of superconductivity at megabar (MB) pressures in hydrogen sulfide H3S, then in metal polyhydrides, starting with binary, LaH10, etc., and ending with ternary ones, including (La, Y)H10, revolutionized the field of condensed…

Recently, the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity (SC) was experimentally realized in the fcc phase of LaH$_{10}$ under megabar pressure. Specifically, the isotope effect of $T_{\rm c}$ was measured by the replacement of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-03 Artur P. Durajski , Radoslaw Szczesniak , Yinwei Li , Chongze Wang , Jun-Hyung Cho

Recently superconductivity has been discovered at around 200~K in a hydrogen sulfide system and around 260~K in a lanthanum hydride system, both under pressures of about 200 GPa. These record-breaking transition temperatures bring within…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-15 Sabri Elatresh , T. Timusk , E. J. Nicol

The recent discovery of H3S and LaH10 superconductors with record high superconducting transition temperatures, Tc, at high pressure, has fueled the search for room-temperature superconductivity in the compressed superhydrides. Here we…

Conventional superconductivity, as used in this review, refers to electron-phonon coupled superconducting electron-pairs described by BCS theory. Unconventional superconductivity refers to superconductors where the Cooper pairs are not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-07 G. R. Stewart

Capitani and coworkers [1] reported that infrared optical reflectance measurements provided evidence for a superconducting transition in sulfur hydride [2] under 150 GPa pressure, and that the transition is driven by the electron-phonon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio

Room temperature superconductivity has been achieved under high pressure in an organically derived carbonaceous sulfur hydride with a critical superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 288 kelvin. This development is part of a new…

Recently, the thorium hydride ThH9 possessing an H-rich clathrate structure has been experimentally synthesized to exhibit a superconducting transition temperature Tc of 146 K at 170-175 GPa, while the more H-rich clathrate thorium hydride…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-15 Shichang Yao , Chongze Wang , Hyunsoo Jeon , Liangliang Liu , Jin Mo Bok , Yunkyu Bang , Yu Jia , Jun-Hyung Cho

Polyhydride superconductors have been shown to possess metallic properties with a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-type superconducting ground state. Here, we provide evidence for unconventional transport associated with a pseudogap phase in cubic…

Superconductivity commonly appears under pressure in charge density wave (CDW)-bearing transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), but has emerged so far only via either intercalation with electron donors or electrostatic doping in CDW-free…

For seven decades by A-15 superconductors we meant metallic $A_3B$ alloys (where A is a transition metal, and B is groups IIIB and IVB element) discovered by Hardy and Hulm (Phys. Rev. 89, 884 (1953)). Nb3Ge exhibited the highest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-20 E. F. Talantsev , V. V. Chistyakov

The discovery of near-room-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides has sparked intensive research efforts to identify superconducting hydrides stable at low or even ambient pressures. Herein, we demonstrate a new mechanism for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Wendi Zhao , Shumin Guo , Tiancheng Ma , Zhengtao Liu , Chengda Li , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

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

We report ab-initio calculations of the superconducting properties of two high-Tc sodalite-like clathrate yttrium hydrides, YH6 and YH10, within the fully anisotropic ME theory, including Coulomb corrections. For both compounds we find…