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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

By drilling periodic thru-holes in a suspended film, the phonon system can be modified. Being motivated by the BCS theory, the technique, so-called phonon engineering, was applied to a niobium sheet. The newly emergent high-$T_{c}$…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 N. Zen

In a superconductor electrons form pairs and electric transport becomes dissipation-less at low temperatures. Recently discovered iron based superconductors have the highest superconducting transition temperature next to copper oxides. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-02 Xianhui Chen , Pengcheng Dai , Donglai Feng , Tao Xiang , Fu-Chun Zhang

The discovery of superconductivity in the Ba-La-Cu-O system (the cuprate) at the 30 K range in 1986 marked a significant breakthrough, as it far exceeded the highest known critical temperature ($T_c$) at the time and surpassed the predicted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-02 S. Lin Er Chow , Zhaoyang Luo , A. Ariando

By using the five Angstrom diameter pores of calcined zeolite as the template, we have fabricated boron doped carbon nanotube networks via the chemical vapor deposition method. Raman data indicate the network to comprise segments of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Jie Pan , Bing Zhang , Yuxiao Hou , Ting Zhang , Xiaohui Deng , Yibao Wang , Ning Wang , Ping Sheng

Two hydrogen-rich materials, H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$, synthesized at megabar pressures, have revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics providing the first glimpse to the solution of the hundred-year-old problem of room temperature…

Searching for ambient-pressure conventional superconductors with critical temperatures (TC) higher than 40 K is a key challenge in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, mainly due to lack of efficient and effective models to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-26 Yuting Sun , Shixu Liu , Xin-Gao Gong , Ji-Hui Yang

Presently, the main method of producing new high-temperature superconductors is chemical when record temperatures of the superconducting transition $T_c$ are reached due to changes in the chemical structure of a superconductor. This paper…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Victor D. Lakhno

Room-temperature superconductivity was recently discovered in carbonaceous sulfur hydride (C-S-H) close to 3\,Mbar. We report significant differences in the superconducting response of C-S-H, with a maximum $T_{C}$ of 191(1)\,K, below a…

For half a century after the discovery of superconductivity, materials exploration for better superconductors proceeded without knowledge of the underlying mechanism. The 1957 BCS theory cleared that up: the superconducting state occurs due…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-19 Warren E. Pickett

We critically reexamine the superconducting properties of rock-salt transition-metal carbides (TMCs), often regarded as textbook conventional superconductors, combining first-principles electron-phonon calculations with variable-composition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-10 Simone Di Cataldo , William Cursio , Lilia Boeri

We report a record high superconducting transition temperature ($T_{\rm c}$) up to 23.6 K under high pressure in the elemental metal Ti, one of the top ten most abundant elements in Earth's crust. The $T_{\rm c}$ increases monotonically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-13 Xuqiang Liu , Peng Jiang , Yiming Wang , Mingtao Li , Nana Li , Qian Zhang , Yandong Wang , Yan-ling Li , Wenge Yang

A promising path to realizing higher superconducting transition temperatures $T_c$ is the strategic engineering of artificial heterostructures. For example, quantum materials could, in principle, be coupled with other materials to produce a…

Topological superconductors have drawn significant interest from the scientific community due to the accompanying Majorana fermions. Here, we report the discovery of electronic structure and superconductivity in high-entropy ceramics…

Configurationally disordered crystalline boron carbide, B$_{4}$C, is studied using first-principles calculations. We investigate both dilute and high concentrations of carbon-boron substitutional defects. For the latter purpose, we suggest…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-01 A. Ektarawong , S. I. Simak , L. Hultman , J. Birch , B. Alling

Superconductivity was found for a rhenium boride Re3B at Tc=4.7 K and for ReB2 with Tc in the range from 4.5 to 6.3 K depending on the boron concentrations. Both compounds have the structure different from that of the simple layered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. K. Strukova , V. F. Degtyareva , D. V. Shovkun , V. N. Zverev , V. M. Kiiko , A. M. Ionov , A. N. Chaika

We report the preparation method of, and boron isotope effect for MgB$_2$, a new binary intermetallic superconductor with a remarkably high superconducting transition temperature $T_c$($^{10}$B) = 40.2 K. Measurements of both temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 S. L. Bud'ko , G. Lapertot , C. Petrovic , C. E. Cunningham , N. Anderson , P. C. Canfield

Advances in theoretical calculations boosted the searches for high temperature superconductors, such as sulfur hydrides and rare-earth polyhydrides. However, the required extremely high pressures for stabilizing these superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-09 Xiangru Tao , Aiqin Yang , Yundi Quan , Biao Wan , Shuxiang Yang , Peng Zhang

The surprising discovery of superconductivity in layered iron-based materials, with transition temperatures climbing as high as 55 K, has lead to thousands of publications on this subject over the past two years. While there is general…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-16 Johnpierre Paglione , Richard L. Greene

Superconductivity was discovered in heavily boron-doped diamond thin films deposited by the microwave plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) method. Advantages of the MPCVD deposited diamond are the controllability of boron…