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Recent predictions of metastable high-temperature hydride superconductors give hope that superconductivity at ambient conditions is within reach. In this work, we predict RbPH$_3$ as a new compound with a superconducting critical…
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Recently, it has been argued by Kuklov et al., that unusual features associated with the superflow-through-solid effect observed in solid He4 can be explained by unique properties of dilute distribution of superfluid edge dislocations. We…
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Behavior of the Grand thermodynamic potential along with its derivatives, entropy and specific heat, is considered within a two-band model of an unconventional $s_\pm$ superconductor with nonmagnetic impurities. The transition $s_\pm \to…
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We present a new mechanical probe to study the properties of superfluid $^3$He at microkelvin temperatures down to 100$\mu$K. The setup consists of a set of coils for levitating a superconducting sphere and controlling its motion in a wide…
A microscopic analysis of the superconducting quantum critical point realized via a pair-breaking quantum phase transition is presented. Finite temperature crossovers are derived for the electrical conductivity, which is a key probe of…
Metal-insulator transitions strongly coupled with lattice were found in Bi1-xLaxNiO3. Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction revealed that pressure (P ~ 3 GPa, T = 300 K), temperature (T ~ 340 K, x = 0.05), and La-substitution (x ~ 0.075, T =…
By classical and path-integral molecular dynamics simulations, we study the pressure-temperature ($P$-$T$) phase diagram of LaH$_{10}$ to clarify the impact of temperature and atomic zero-point motions. We calculate the XRD pattern and…
The recent discovery that superconductivity occurs in several clean itinerant ferromagnets close to low temperature magnetic instabilities naturally invites an interpretation based on a proximity to quantum criticality. Here we report…
This comment addresses criticisms of our PRL 82 (1999) p. 4532-4535 (cond-mat/9904288) raised by Woodfield et al. in their recent PRL. We find that the critical fields in single crystals of Ba1-xKxBiO3 (x = 0.4) have anomalous temperature…
A model of charged hole-pair bosons, with long range Coulomb interactions and very weak interlayer coupling, is used to calculate the order parameter -Phi- of underdoped cuprates. Model parameters are extracted from experimental superfluid…