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Electrides are special ionic solids with excess cavity-trapped electrons serving as anions. Despite the extensive studies on electrides, the interplay between electrides and magnetism is not well understood due to the lack of stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-22 Xuelei Sui , Jianfeng Wang , Wenhui Duan

We used our developed AI search engine~(InvDesFlow) to perform extensive investigations regarding ambient stable superconducting hydrides. A cubic structure Li$_2$AuH$_6$ with Au-H octahedral motifs is identified to be a candidate. After…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Zhenfeng Ouyang , Bo-Wen Yao , Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

We employed a machine-learning assisted approach to search for superconducting hydrides under ambient pressure within an extensive dataset comprising over 150 000 compounds. Our investigation yielded around 50 systems with transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea , Antonio Sanna , Miguel A. L. Marques

Under pressure, metals exhibit increasingly shorter interatomic distances. Intuitively, this response is expected to be accompanied by an increase in the widths of the valence and conduction bands and hence a more pronounced…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-16 Y. Ma , M. I. Eremets , A. R. Oganov , Y. Xie , I. Trojan , S. Medvedev , A. O. Lyakhov , M. Valle , V. Prakapenka

Superionic states are phases of matters that can simultaneously exhibit some of the properties of a fluid and of a solid. Superionic states of ice, H$_{3}$O, He-H$_{2}$O or He-NH$_{3}$ compounds have been reported in previous works.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Tianxiao Liang , Zihan Zhang , Hongyu Yu , Tian Cui , Chris J. Pickard , Defang Duan

The paradigm of electrons interacting with a periodic lattice potential is central to solid-state physics. Semiconductor heterostructures and ultracold neutral atomic lattices capture many of the essential properties of 1D electronic…

We suggest a new family of Co/Ni-based materials that may host unconventional high temperature superconductivity (high-T$_c$). These materials carry layered square lattices with each layer being formed by vertex-shared transition metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-15 Jiangping Hu , Congcong Le

Two recent preprints in the physics archive (arXiv) have called attention as they claim experimental evidence that a Cu-substituted apatite material (dubbed LK-99) exhibits superconductivity at room temperature and pressure. If this proves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-17 J. Cabezas-Escares , N. F. Barrera , R. H. Lavroff , A. N. Alexandrova , C. Cardenas , F. Munoz

This work reports superconductivity studies in the intermetallic Ti$_{0.85}$Pd$_{0.15}$ performed in normal conditions and under hydrostatic pressure. The crystal structure of the compound has a body centered cubic at room temperature and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 C. Reyes-Damián , F. Morales , Esmeralda Martínez-Piñeiro , Roberto Escudero

Li$_2$AuH$_6$ and Li$_2$AgH$_6$ have been proposed as promising candidates for high-temperature superconductors under ambient pressure. While previous studies confirm the dynamic stability of these two thermodynamically unstable systems,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-28 Yucheng Ding , Haoran Chen , Junren Shi

Electrides are a unique class of electron-rich materials where excess electrons are localized in interstitial lattice sites as anions, leading to a range of unique properties and applications. While hundreds of electrides have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-17 Xiaoming Zhang , Weizhen Meng , Ying Liu , Xuefang Dai , Guodong Liu , Liangzhi Kou

Electrides, with their excess electrons distributed in crystal cavities playing the role of anions, exhibit a variety of unique electronic and magnetic properties. In this work, we employ the first-principles crystal structure prediction to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 Sheng-cai Zhu , Lei Wang , Jing-yu Qu , Jun-jie Wang , Timofey Frolov , Xing-Qiu Chen , Qiang Zhu

The lithium ions in Lithium iron arsenide phases with compositions close to LiFeAs have been located using powder neutron diffraction. These phases exhibit superconductivity at temperatures at least as high as 16 K demonstrating that…

Motivated by the report of superconductivity in bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ at high pressure, we examine the interacting electrons in this system. First-principles many-body theory is utilized to study the normal-state electronic properties.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-04 Frank Lechermann , Jannik Gondolf , Steffen Bötzel , Ilya M. Eremin

The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using \emph{ab initio} crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first-principles calculations has led to the \emph{in silico} discovery of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-25 Eva Zurek , Tiange Bi

We demonstrate in this paper that the recently discovered infinite-layer (IL) nickelates have much in common with a class of materials known as electrides. Oxide based electrides are compounds in which topotactic removal of loosely bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-30 Kateryna Foyevtsova , Ilya Elfimov , George A. Sawatzky

Room-temperature superconductivity has been one of the most challenging subjects in modern physics. Recent experiments reported that lanthanum hydride LaH$_{10{\pm}x}$ ($x$$<$1) raises a superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ up…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-10 Liangliang Liu , Chongze Wang , Seho Yi , Kun Woo Kim , Jaeyong Kim , Jun-Hyung Cho

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…

The exploration of superconductors in metastable phases by manipulating crystal structures through high-pressure techniques has attracted significant interest in materials science to achieve a high critical temperature ($T_c$). In this…

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…