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A possibility of high, room-temperature superconductivity was predicted for metallic hydrogen in the 1960s. However, metallization and superconductivity of hydrogen are yet to be unambiguously demonstrated in the laboratory and may require…

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

To understand the link between doping and electronic properties in high temperature superconductors, we report first-principles calculations on the oxygen doping effect for the single layer cuprate HgBa$_2$CuO$_{4+\delta}$. The doping…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Süle , C. Ambrosch-Draxl , H. Auer , E. Y. Sherman

Lanthanide hydrogen-rich materials have long been considered as one of the candidates with high-temperature superconducting properties in condensed matter physics, and have attracted great interest. Attempts to investigate the effects of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-01 Yao Wei , Elena Chachkarova , Evgeny Plekhanov , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high-T$_c$ superconductors, with experimentally observed critical temperatures near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Evgeny Plekhanov , Zelong Zhao , Francesco Macheda , Yao Wei , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

The primary challenge in the field of high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides is to achieve a superconducting state at ambient pressure rather than the extreme pressures that have been required in experiments so far. Here, we propose…

Varying the superconducting transition temperature over a large scale of a cuprate superconductor is a necessary step for identifying the unsettled mechanism of superconductivity. Chemical doping or element substitution has been proven to…

Metallic hydrogen is capable of showing room temperature superconductivity, but its experimental syntheses are extremely hard. Therefore, it is desirable to reduce the synthesis pressure of metallic hydrogen by adding other chemical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-23 Zhongyu Wan , Ruiqin Zhang

To understand the most-recent experiment on room-temperature superconductivity in carbonaceous sulfur hydride (CSH) systems under high pressure, we have performed extensive stoichiometry and structure searches of ternary CSH compounds using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-21 S. X. Hu , R. Paul , V. V. Karasiev , R. P. Dias

The structural, electronic, lattice dynamics, electron-phonon coupling, and superconducting properties of the alkali-metal hydride RbH, metalized through electron-doping by the construction of the solid-solution Rb$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$H, are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-19 S. Villa-Cortés , M. A. Olea-Amezcua , O. De la Peña-Seaman

Hydrogen-based superconductors provide a route to the long-sought goal of room-temperature superconductivity, but the high pressures required to metallize these materials limit their immediate application. For example, carbonaceous sulfur…

We report a strategy to induce superconductivity in the BiS$_2$-based compound LaOBiS$_2$. Instead of substituting F for O, we increase the charge-carrier density (electron dope) via substitution of tetravalent Th$^{+4}$, Hf$^{+4}$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-22 D. Yazici , K. Huang , B. D. White , I. Jeon , V. W. Burnett , A. J. Friedman , I. K. Lum , M. Nallaiyan , S. Spagna , M. B. Maple

Pushing dopant concentrations beyond the solubility limit in semiconductors -- a process known as hyperdoping -- has been demonstrated as an effective strategy for inducing superconductivity in cubic-diamond Si and SiGe materials.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 Marc Túnica , Francesca Chiodi , Michele Amato

To achieve room-temperature superconductivity, a mechanism is needed that provides heavy quasiparticles at room temperature. In heavy fermion systems such localization is prototypically present only at liquid helium temperatures. In these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-11 J. L. M. van Mechelen , M. J. van Setten

The search for room temperature superconductivity has accelerated dramatically in the last few years driven largely by theoretical predictions that first indicated alloying dense hydrogen with other elements could produce conventional…

A theory of strongly correlated electron or hole liquids with the fermion condensate is presented and applied to the consideration of quasiparticle excitations in high temperature superconductors, in their superconducting and normal states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. R. Shaginyan

The recent reports on high-temperature superconductivity above 190 K in hydrogen sulfide at 200 GPa pressure, exceeding all previously discovered superconductors, has greatly invigorated the interest in dense hydrogen-rich solids. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-02 Christoph Heil , Lilia Boeri

In the last decade, there has been great progress in predicting and synthesizing polyhydrides that exhibit superconductivity when squeezed. Dopants allow these compounds to become metals at pressures lower than those required to metallize…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Xiaoyu Wang , Nisha Geng , Kyla de Villa , Burkard Militzer , Eva Zurek

Chemical doping has recently become a very important strategy to induce superconductivity especially in complex compounds. Distinguished examples include Ba-doped La$_2$CuO$_4$ (the first high temperature superconductor), K-doped BaBiO$_3$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-22 Guanghan Cao , Cao Wang , Zengwei Zhu , Shuai Jiang , Yongkang Luo , Shun Chi Zhi Ren , Qian Tao , Yuetao Wang , Zhu'an Xu

Recent studies of hydrogen-dominant (superhydride) materials, such as LaH10 have led to putative discoveries of near-room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 250 K observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-26 Xuejie Li , Wenbo zhao , Yuzhou Hao , Xiaoying Wang , Zhibin Gao , Xiangdong Ding