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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…

Searching for superconductivity with Tc near room temperature is of great interest both for fundamental science & many potential applications. Here we report the experimental discovery of superconductivity with maximum critical temperature…

Changes in atomic coordination numbers at high pressures are fundamental to condensed-matter physics because they initiate the emergence of unexpected structures and phenomena. Silicon is capable of forming eight-, nine-, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-08 Shicong Ding , Pan Zhang , Kang Yang , Cailong Liu , Jian Hao , Wenwen Cui , Jingming Shi , Yinwei Li

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…

Observation of high-temperature superconductivity in sulfur hydrides at megabar pressures has generated an irresistible wave on searching for new superconductors in other compressed hydrogen-rich compounds. An immediate effort is towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-10 Xin Zhong , Hui Wang , Jurong Zhang , Hanyu Liu , Shoutao Zhang , Hai-Feng Song , Guochun Yang , Lijun Zhang , Yanming Ma

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

Evolutionary structure searches revealed a plethora of stable and low-enthalpy metastable phases in the S-P-H ternary phase diagram under pressure. A wide variety of crystalline structure types were uncovered ranging from those possessing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-04 Nisha Geng , Tiange Bi , Eva Zurek

Helium is generally understood to be chemically inert and this is due to its extremely stable closed-shell electronic configuration, zero electron affinity and an unsurpassed ionization potential. It is not known to form thermodynamically…

Exploring high-temperature superconducting (high-$T_c$) material at ambient pressure holds immense significance for physics, chemistry, and materials science. In this study, we perform a high-throughput screening of strong electron-phonon…

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 discovery of nearly room-temperature superconductivity in superhydrides has motivated further materials research for conventional superconductors. To realize the moderately high critical temperature $(T_\mathrm{c})$ in materials…

Lanthanum-hydrogen system and its derivatives remain among the most promising for achieving room-temperature superconductivity. In this study, we examined the formation of ternary lanthanum-scandium superhydrides at pressures up to 220 GPa.…

The pursuit of room-temperature superconductors has recently advanced with the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides, although sustaining the superconductivity of hydrides at ambient pressure remains…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-28 Ying Sun , Li Zhu

Metallic hydrogen, existing in remarkably extreme environments, was predicted to exhibit long-sought room-temperature superconductivity. Although the superconductivity of metallic hydrogen has not been confirmed experimentally,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Zihan Zhang , Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

Superconductivity in highly-pressurized hydrides became primary direction for the exploration of fundamental upper limit for the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, after Drozdov et al (Nature 2015, 525, 73) discovered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-28 E. F. Talantsev

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…

We report the experimental discovery of superconductivity with critical temperature Tc above 70 K in zirconium polyhydrides, the record high so far for 3d transition metal hydrides. The superconducting zirconium polyhydrides are synthesized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-01 C. L. Zhang , X. He , Z. W. Li , S. J. Zhang , S. M. Feng , X. C. Wang , R. C. Yu , C. Q. Jin

Lanthanum hydrides, containing hydrogen framework structures under compression, display a superconducting state with a high observed critical temperature. However, this phenomenon has so far only been observed at very high pressures. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-16 Hao Song , Zihan Zhang , Tian Cui2 , Chris J. Pickard , Vladimir Z. Kresin , Defang Duan

Superconductivity (SC) or superfluidity (SF) is observed across a remarkably broad range of fermionic systems: in BCS, cuprate, iron-based, organic, and heavy-fermion superconductors, and superfluid helium-3 in condensed matter; in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-18 Mike Guidry , Yang Sun

A potential superionic material LiY(SO$_4$)$_2$ has been excavated from the published literatures because its synthesis method and experiment data implied it exists the superionic state. We use \textit{ab initio} calculation to analyzing…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 Siyuan Wu , Ruijuan Xiao , Hong Li , Liquan Chen