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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

Ternary hydrides have emerged as the primary focus of the new wave of research into superconducting hydrides. In this work, Mg-Ti-H ternary hydrides are explored under high pressures up to 300 GPa using the prediction method of the particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Pan Min , Wang Yujie , Hu Kaige , Deng Huiqiu

The search for high-temperature superconductors in hydrides under high pressure has always been a research hotspot. Hydrogen-based superconductors offer an avenue to achieve the long-sought goal of superconductivity at room temperature. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-22 Ming Xu , Defang Duan , Wendi Zhao , Decheng An , Hao Song , Tian Cui

Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are promising high-Tc superconductors, with superconductivity experimentally observed near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high pressures, e.g. LaH10 at 170 GPa…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-14 Yao Wei , Francesco Macheda , Zelong Zhao , Terence Tse , Evgeny Plekhanov , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high-Tc superconductors as they are expected to mimic characteristics of metallic hydrogen. Recent experiments discovered superhydrides at very high pressures, e.g. FeH5 at 130…

We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020-2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature ($\textit{T$_c$}$) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite…

Hydrogen-rich compounds hold promise as high-temperature superconductors under high pressures. Recent theoretical hydride structures on achieving high-pressure superconductivity are composed mainly of H2 fragments. Through a systematic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Hui Wang , John S. Tse , Kaori Tanaka , Toshiaki Iitaka , Yanming Ma

Inspired by the synthesis of the high-pressure Fm-3m LaH10 superconducting superhydride, systematic density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed to study ternaries that could be derived from it by replacing two of the hydrogen…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-02 Nisha Geng , Katerina P. Hilleke , Francesco Belli , Pratik Kumar Das , Eva Zurek

New stable thorium decahydride $Fm\bar{3}m$-$ThH_{10}$, a record high-temperature superconductor with $T_C$ up to 241 K ($-32^{\circ}C$), critical field $H_C$ up to 71T and superconducting gap ${\Delta_0}$ = 52 meV at 80-100 GPa was…

We synthesized lanthanum hydride (LaHx) by laser heating of lanthanum in hydrogen atmosphere at pressure P = 170 GPa. The sample shows a superconducting step at 209 K and 170 GPa and temperature dependence of resistance. By releasing the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-22 A. P. Drozdov , V. S. Minkov , S. P. Besedin , P. P. Kong , M. A. Kuzovnikov , D. A. Knyazev , M. I. Eremets

Hydrogen in metals is a significant research area with far-reaching implications, encompassing diverse fields such as hydrogen storage, metal-insulator transitions, and the recently emerging phenomenon of room-temperature ($\textit{$T_C$}$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-30 Heejung Kim , Ina Park , J. H. Shim , D. Y. Kim

Hydrogen-rich materials are the most promising candidates for high-temperature conventional superconductors under ambient pressure. Multinary hydrides have abundant structural configurations and are more promising to find high-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-18 Bo-Wen Yao , Zhenfeng Ouyang , Xiao-Qi Han , Chang-Jiang Wu , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

Motivated by the recent claim of hot superconductivity with critical temperatures up to 550 K in La + x hydrides (arXiv:2006.03004), we investigate the high-pressure phase diagram of possible compounds that may have formed in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-15 Simone Di Cataldo , Wolfgang von der Linden , Lilia Boeri

The discovery of clathrate superhydrides has approached the long-standing dream of room-temperature superconductivity and thus inspired their prosperous research under high pressure. However, how to experimentally optimize these compelling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-30 Jingkai Bi , Yuki Nakamoto , Katsuya Shimizu , Mi Zhou , Hongbo Wang , Guangtao Liu , Yanming Ma

High-pressure structural search was performed on the hydrogen-rich compound LuBeH$_8$ at pressures up to 200 GPa. We found a $Fm\overline{3}m$ structure that exhibits stability and superconductivity above 100 GPa. Our phonon dispersion,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-26 Bin Li , Yeqian Yang , Yuxiang Fan , Cong Zhu , Shengli Liu , Zhixiang Shi

Based on evolutionary crystal structure searches in combination with ab initio calculations, we predict an unusual structural phase of the superconducting LaH$_{10}$ that is stable from about 250 GPa to 425 GPa pressure. This new phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-17 Ashok K. Verma , P. Modak , Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

High-temperature superconductivity has been observed in binary hydrides such as LaH10 at pressures above 150 GPa. Hydrogen cage structures have been identified as a common motif beneficial for high critical temperatures Tc. Efforts are now…

Following long-standing predictions associated with hydrogen, high-temperature superconductivity has recently been observed in several hydride-based materials. Nevertheless, these high-$T_c$ phases only exist at extremely high pressures,…

The 2014-2015 prediction, discovery, and confirmation of record high temperature superconductivity above 200K in H$_3$S, followed by the 2018 extension to superconductivity in the 250-280K range in lanthanum hydride, marks a new era in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-13 Yundi Quan , Soham S. Ghosh , Warren E. Pickett

The discovery of superconductivity at 200 K in the hydrogen sulfide system at large pressures [1] was a clear demonstration that hydrogen-rich materials can be high-temperature superconductors. The recent synthesis of LaH$_{10}$ with a…