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Predicting the critical temperature $T_c$ of new superconductors is a notoriously difficult task, even for electron-phonon paired superconductors for which the theory is relatively well understood. Early attempts by McMillan and Allen and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-27 S. R. Xie , G. R. Stewart , J. J. Hamlin , P. J. Hirschfeld , R. G. Hennig

High-throughput density functional theory (DFT) calculations allow for a systematic search for conventional superconductors. With the recent interest in two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, we used a high-throughput workflow to screen over…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-13 Daniel Wines , Kamal Choudhary , Adam J. Biacchi , Kevin F. Garrity , Francesca Tavazza

We perform a large scale study of conventional superconducting materials using a machine-learning accelerated high-throughput workflow. We start by creating a comprehensive dataset of around 7000 electron-phonon calculations performed with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-21 Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Antonio Sanna , Miguel A. L. Marques

Superconducting materials are of significant technological relevance for a broad range of applications, and intense research efforts aim at enhancing the critical temperature $T_{c}$. Intriguingly, while numerous studies have explored…

For half a century after the discovery of superconductivity, materials exploration for better superconductors proceeded without knowledge of the underlying mechanism. The 1957 BCS theory cleared that up: the superconducting state occurs due…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-19 Warren E. Pickett

The discovery of new superconducting materials, particularly those exhibiting high critical temperature ($T_c$), has been a vibrant area of study within the field of condensed matter physics. Conventional approaches primarily rely on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-14 Xiao-Qi Han , Zhenfeng Ouyang , Peng-Jie Guo , Hao Sun , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

The Eliashberg theory of superconductivity accounts for the fundamental physics of conventional electron-phonon superconductors, including the retardation of the interaction and the effect of the Coulomb pseudopotential, to predict the…

Integrating deep learning with the search for new electron-phonon superconductors represents a burgeoning field of research, where the primary challenge lies in the computational intensity of calculating the electron-phonon spectral…

The discovery of novel high-temperature superconductor materials holds transformative potential for a wide array of technological applications. However, the combinatorially vast chemical and configurational search space poses a significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiaoyang Wang , Chengqian Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Hanyu Liu , Jian Lv , Han Wang , Weinan E , Yanming Ma

Prediction of critical temperature $(T_c)$ of a superconductor remains a significant challenge in condensed matter physics. While the BCS theory explains superconductivity in conventional superconductors, there is no framework to predict…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-08 Suhas Adiga , Umesh V. Waghmare

Superconductivity has been the focus of enormous research effort since its discovery more than a century ago. Yet, some features of this unique phenomenon remain poorly understood; prime among these is the connection between…

The quest to identify new superconducting materials with enhanced properties is hindered by the prohibitive cost of computing electron-phonon spectral functions, severely limiting the materials space that can be explored. Here, we introduce…

We perform first-principles electron-phonon calculations to evaluate the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ for ternary superhard metals B$_2$C$_3$N and B$_4$C$_5$N$_3$. These materials are predicted to exhibit a wide distribution…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-04 Adam D. Smith , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

We survey the landscape of binary hydrides across the entire periodic table from 10 to 500 GPa using a crystal structure prediction method. Building a critical temperature ($T_c$) model, with inputs arising from density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-11 Alice M. Shipley , Michael J. Hutcheon , Richard J. Needs , Chris J. Pickard

Recently a relationship between the Debye temperature $\Theta_D$ and the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ of conventional superconductors has been proposed [npj Quantum Materials $\mathbf{3}$, 59 (2018)]. The relationship…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-28 Adam D. Smith , Sumner B. Harris , Renato P. Camata , Da Yan , Cheng-Chien Chen

The observation of superconductivity in hydride-based materials under ultrahigh pressures (for example, H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$) has fueled the interest in a more data-driven approach to discovering new high-pressure hydride superconductors.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-04 Daniel Wines , Kamal Choudhary

Predicting high temperature superconductors has long been a great challenge. A major difficulty is how to predict the transition temperature Tc of superconductors. Recently, progress in material informatics has led to a number of machine…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Liang Gu , Yang Liu , Pin Chen , Haiyou Huang , Ning Chen , Yang Li , Yutong Lu , Yanjing Su

Superconductor research has traditionally depended on experiments and theoretical approaches. However, the rapid advancement of data-driven methods and machine learning (ML) has opened avenues for accelerating superconductor discovery.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Xiaoying Li , Wenqian Tu , Run Lv , Li'e Liu , Dingfu Shao , Yuping Sun , Wenjian Lu

We perform a high-throughput computational search for novel phonon-mediated superconductors, starting from the Materials Cloud 3-dimensional structure database of experimentally known inorganic stoichiometric compounds. We first compute the…

The discovery of novel superconducting materials is a longstanding challenge in materials science, with a wealth of potential for applications in energy, transportation, and computing. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have…

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