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Hydrogen-rich hydrides attract great attention due to recent theoretical (1) and then experimental discovery of record high-temperature superconductivity in H3S (Tc = 203 K at 155 GPa (2)). Here we search for stable uranium hydrides at…

As the simplest element in nature, unraveling the phase diagram of hydrogen is a primary task for condensed matter physics. As conjectured many decades ago, in the low-temperature and high-pressure part of the phase diagram, solid hydrogen…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Mehmet Dogan , Sehoon Oh , Marvin L. Cohen

Recently, ternary clathrate hydrides are promising candidates for high-temperature superconductor. However, it is a formidable challenge to effectively hunt high-temperature superconductivity among multinary hydrides due to the expensive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-29 Bowen Jiang , Xiaoshan Luo , Toshiaki Iitaka , Ying Sun , Xin Zhong , Jian Lv , Yu Xie , Yanming Ma , Hanyu Liu

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

A superconductor is a material that can conduct electricity with no resistance below its critical temperature (Tc). The highest Tc that has been achieved in cuprates1 is 133 K at ambient pressure2 and 164 K at high pressures3. As the nature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-31 A. P. Drozdov , M. I. Eremets , I. A. Troyan , V. Ksenofontov , S. I. Shylin

Following the idea that hydrogen-rich compounds might be high-T$_c$ superconductors at high pressures, and the very recent breakthrough in predicting and synthesizing hydrogen sulfide with record-high T$_c$ = 203 K, ab initio evolutionary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-19 M. M. Davari Esfahani , A. R. Oganov , H. Niu , J. Zhang

The low-pressure stabilization of superconducting hydrides with high critical temperatures ($T_c$s) remains a significant challenge, and experimentally verified superconducting hydrides are generally constrained to a limited number of…

The extreme pressures required to stabilize the recently discovered superhydrides represent a major obstacle to their practical application. In this paper, we propose a novel route to attain high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-15 Simone Di Cataldo , Lilia Boeri

Superconductors have been among the most fascinating substances, as the fundamental concept of superconductivity as well as the correlation of critical temperature and superconductive materials have been the focus of extensive investigation…

The search for new superconducting compounds with higher critical temperatures $T_{c}^{\prime}$s has long been the very heart of scientific research on superconductivity. It took 75 years for scientists to push the $T_{c}$ above liquid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-21 Ren-Shu Wang , Yun Gao , Zhong-Bing Huang , Xiao-Jia Chen

We develop a non-perturbative approach for calculating the superconducting transition temperatures ($T_{c}$) of liquids. The electron-electron scattering amplitude induced by electron-phonon coupling (EPC), from which the effective pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-25 Huiying Liu , Ying Yuan , Donghao Liu , Xin-Zheng Li , Junren Shi

We used our developed AI search engine~(InvDesFlow) to perform extensive investigations regarding ambient stable superconducting hydrides. A cubic structure Li$_2$AuH$_6$ with Au-H octahedral motifs is identified to be a candidate. After…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Zhenfeng Ouyang , Bo-Wen Yao , Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

The use of high pressure to realize superconductivity in the vicinity of room temperature has a long history, much of it focused on achieving this in hydrogen rich materials. This paper provides a brief overview of the work presented at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-11 Russell J. Hemley , Muhtar Ahart , Hanyu Liu , Maddury Somayazulu

In the last six years (2015-2021), many superconducting hydrides with critical temperatures $\textit{T}$$_C$ of up to 253 K, a record for today, have been discovered. Now, a special field of hydride superconductivity at ultrahigh pressures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-26 Dmitrii Semenok

We design, from first principles calculations, a novel family of thallium halide-based compounds as candidates for new high temperature superconductors, whose superconductivity is mediated by the recently proposed mechanism of non-local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-01 Z. P. Yin , G. Kotliar

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

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

Ternary or more complex hydrogen-rich hydrides are the main hope of reaching room-temperature superconductivity at high pressures. Their chemical space is vast and its exploration is challenging. Here we report the investigation of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-13 Grigoriy Shutov , Dmitrii Semenok , Ivan A. Kruglov , Artem R. Oganov

Since the discovery of superconductivity at 200 K in H3S [1] similar or higher transition temperatures, Tcs, have been reported for various hydrogen-rich compounds under ultra-high pressures [2]. Superconductivity was experimentally proved…

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