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We designed and investigated a series of ternary hydride compounds MXH$_{12}$ crystallizing in the cubic $Pm\overline{3}m$ structure as potential rare-earth and alkaline-earth superconductors. First-principles calculations were performed on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-02 Yuxiang Fan , Bin Li , Cong Zhu , Jie Cheng , Shengli Liu , Zhixiang Shi

The electronic and magnetic properties of the new hydride superconductor CaFeAsH, which superconducts up to 47 K when electron-doped with La, and the isovalent alloy system CaFeAsH$_{1-x}$F$_x$ are investigated using density functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-09 Y. N. Huang , D. Y. Liu , L. J. Zou , W. E. Pickett

Knowledge of the behavior of hydrogen in metal hydrides is the key for understanding their electronic properties. So far, no experimental methods exist to access these properties beyond 100 GPa, where high-Tc superconductivity emerges.…

In this review, we present a comprehensive overview of superconductivity in electron-doped metal nitride halides $M$N$X$ ($M$ = Ti, Zr, Hf; $X$ = Cl, Br, I) with layered crystal structure and two-dimensional electronic states. The parent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuichi Kasahara , Kazuhiko Kuroki , Shoji Yamanaka , Yasujiro Taguchi

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

The damaging effect of strong electron-electron repulsion on regular, electron-phonon %$s$-wave superconductivity is a standard tenet. In spite of that, an increasing number of compounds such as fullerides and more recently alkali-doped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Tao Qin , Michele Fabrizio , S. Shahab Naghavi , Erio Tosatti

Recently superconductivity has been discovered at around 200~K in a hydrogen sulfide system and around 260~K in a lanthanum hydride system, both under pressures of about 200 GPa. These record-breaking transition temperatures bring within…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-15 Sabri Elatresh , T. Timusk , E. J. Nicol

Several decades after the discovery of superconductivity in bismuthates, the strength of their electron-phonon coupling and its evolution with doping remain puzzling. To clarify these issues, polycrystalline hole-doped…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-16 T. Shang , D. J. Gawryluk , M. Naamneh , Z. Salman , Z. Guguchia , M. Medarde , M. Shi , N. C. Plumb , T. Shiroka

Recent investigations into MoB$_{2}$ have unveiled a direct connection between a pressure-induced structural transition to a P6/mmm space group structure and the emergence of superconductivity, producing critical temperatures up to 32 K at…

Doping is one of the most prominent techniques to alter properties of a given material. Herein, the influence of the electron- and hole-doping on the selected superconducting properties of graphene are considered. In details, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-12 Ewa A. Drzazga-Szczęśniak , Adam Z. Kaczmarek

Hydrides offer an opportunity to study high-temperature (Tc) superconductivity at experimentally achievable pressures. However, they remained extremely high. Using density functional theory calculations, herein we demonstrated that a newly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-21 Yiding Liu , Qiang Fan , Jianhui Yang , Lili Wang , Weibin Zhang , Gang Yao

We study two aspects of the superconductivity in a cuprate model system, its doping dependence and the influence of competing pairing mediators. We first include electron-phonon interactions beyond Migdal's approximation and solve…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-12 Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

Capitani and coworkers [1] reported that infrared optical reflectance measurements provided evidence for a superconducting transition in sulfur hydride [2] under 150 GPa pressure, and that the transition is driven by the electron-phonon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio

Electron-phonon coupling is at the origin of conventional superconductivity, enabling the pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs. The electron-phonon matrix elements depend on the electronic eigenstates and, in the standard linear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-10 Trinidad Novoa , Raffaello Bianco , Julia Contreras-García , Ion Errea

Using first principle calculations, we examine the sequence of phases in electron doped dichalcogenides, such as recently realized in field-gated MoS$_2$. Upon increasing the electron doping level, we observe a succession of semiconducting,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 M. Rösner , S. Haas , T. O. Wehling

We discover superconductivity in alkali-earth metals doped phenanthrene. The superconducting critical temperatures \emph{T}$_c$ are 5.6 K and 5.4 K for Sr$_{1.5}$phenanthrene and Ba$_{1.5}$phenanthrene, respectively. The shielding fraction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-14 X. F. Wang , Y. J. Yan , Z. Gui , R. H. Liu , J. J. Ying , X. G. Luo , X. H. Chen

The experimental realization of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$ at high pressures over 150 GPa has aroused great interest in reducing the stabilization pressure of superconducting hydrides.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-21 Chongze Wang , Shuyuan Liu , Hyunsoo Jeon , Seho Yi , Yunkyu Bang , Jun-Hyung Cho

We perform a high-throughput screening on phonon-mediated superconductivity in ternary metal diboride structure with alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals. We find 17 ground states and 78 low-energy metastable phases. From fast…

Hydrogen (H) plays a key role in the near-to-room temperature superconductivity of hydrides at megabar pressures. This suggests that H doping could have similar effects on the electronic and phononic spectra of materials at ambient pressure…

Unlike the widely studied $s$-type two-gap superconductor MgB$_2$, the chemically similar compounds ZrB$_2$ and HfB$_2$ do not superconduct above 1 K. Yet, it has been shown that small amounts of self- or extrinsic doping (in particular…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-10 N. Barbero , T. Shiroka , B. Delley , T. Grant , A. J. S. Machado , Z. Fisk , H. -R. Ott , J. Mesot