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The high critical superconducting temperatures ($T_c$s) of metal hydride phases with clathrate-like hydrogen networks have generated great interest. Herein, we employ the Density Functional Theory-Chemical Pressure (DFT-CP) method to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-25 Katerina P. Hilleke , Eva Zurek

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…

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

We report experimental discovery of tantalum polyhydride superconductor. It was synthesized at high pressure and high temperature conditions using diamond anvil cell combined with in-situ high pressure laser heating techniques. The…

The family of the superconducting quasi-skutterudites (Ca$_x$Sr$_{1-x}$)$_3$Rh$_4$Sn$_{13}$ features a structural quantum critical point at $x_c=0.9$, around which a dome-shaped variation of the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$…

A key challenge in materials discovery is to find high-temperature superconductors. Hydrogen and hydride materials have long been considered promising materials displaying conventional phonon-mediated superconductivity. However, the high…

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

Superconductivity is observed with critical temperatures near 9K in the tetragonal compound Mo5PB2. This material adopts the Cr5B3 structure type common to supercondcuting Nb5Si3-xBx, Mo5SiB2, and W5SiB2, which have critical temperatures of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-10 Michael A. McGuire , David S. Parker

An essential property of layered systems is the dynamical nature of the screened Coulomb interaction. Low energy collective modes appear as a consequence of the layering and provide for a superconducting-pairing channel in addition to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bill , H. Morawitz , V. Z. Kresin

The enigma of unconventional superconductivity in doped cuprates presents a formidable challenge in the realm of condensed matter physics. Recent findings of strong near-neighbor attractions in one-dimensional cuprate chains suggest a new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhipeng Sun , Hai-Qing Lin

Superconductivity of a micron-sized hydride sample measured between metal probes under extreme pressure could be considered as a macroscopic quantum tunnelling phenomenon through metal-hydride-metal. The energy barrier height of hydride is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Xiaozhi Hu

Superconductivity with transition temperature Tc above 40 K was observed in protonated FeSe (Hy-FeSe) previously with the ionic liquid of EMIM-BF4 used in the electrochemical process. However, the real superconducting phase is not clear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-23 Jinhua Wang , Qing Li , Wei Xie , Guanyu Chen , Xiyu Zhu , Hai-Hu Wen

Motivated by advances in hydrogen-rich superconductors in the past decades, we conducted variable-composition structural searches in Mo-H binary system at high pressure. A new composition-pressure phase diagram of thermodynamically stable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-31 Aiqin Yang , Xiangru Tao , Yundi Quan , Peng Zhang

This work reports studies performed in the superconducting compound FeSe0:5Te0:5 under high pressure. Changes were observed in the transition temperature, superconducting critical fields,anomalous variations in the Meissner fraction, and in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-04 Martinez Esmeralda , Escudero Roberto

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 present paper determines the thermodynamic properties of the superconducting state in the ${\rm H_{2}S}$ compound. The values of the pressure from $130$ GPa to $180$ GPa were taken into consideration. The calculations were performed in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-21 Artur P. Durajski , Radoslaw Szczesniak , Yinwei Li

We present electronic transport and magnetic properties of single crystals of semimetallic half-Heusler phase LuPdBi, having theoretically predicted band inversion requisite for nontrivial topological properties. The compound exhibits…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 Orest Pavlosiuk , Dariusz Kaczorowski , Piotr Wiśniewski

First-principles calculations were carried out to provide a chemical basis for proposed structures associated with the recently reported room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride material under pressure.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-28 Xiaoyu Wang , Tiange Bi , Katerina P. Hilleke , Anmol Lamichhane , Russell J. Hemley , Eva Zurek

A huge enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature Tc was observed in tetragonal FeSe superconductor under high pressure. The onset temperature became as high as 27 K at 1.48 GPa and the pressure coefficient showed a huge…

The current search for room-temperature superconductivity is inspired by the unique properties of the electron-phonon interaction in metal superhydrides. Encouraged by the recently found highest-$T_C$ superconductor fcc-$LaH_{10}$, here we…