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We use magnetoresistance measurements at high magnetic field (B \leq 65 T) and low temperature (T \geq 500 mK) to gain fresh insights into the behavior of the upper critical field, Hc2, in superconducting ultrathin FeSe films of varying…

The pursuit of room-temperature superconductors has recently advanced with the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides, although sustaining the superconductivity of hydrides at ambient pressure remains…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-28 Ying Sun , Li Zhu

Polycrystalline samples of the recently discovered MgCNi3 superconductor were investigated by transport, ac susceptibility, dc magnetization and specific heat measurements in magnetic fields up to 16 T. Consistent results were obtained for…

Recently it was discovered that, under elevated pressures, MoB$_2$ exhibits superconductivity at a critical temperature, $T_c$, as high as 32 K. The superconductivity appears to develop following a pressure-induced structural transition…

The ab initio calculations suggest that the superconducting state in CaH6 under the pressure at 150 GPa has the highest critical temperature among the examined hydrogen-rich compounds. For this reason, the relevant thermodynamic parameters…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-17 R. Szczesniak , A. P. Durajski

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,…

Advances in theoretical calculations boosted the searches for high temperature superconductors, such as sulfur hydrides and rare-earth polyhydrides. However, the required extremely high pressures for stabilizing these superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-09 Xiangru Tao , Aiqin Yang , Yundi Quan , Biao Wan , Shuxiang Yang , Peng Zhang

Exploring high-temperature superconducting (high-$T_c$) material at ambient pressure holds immense significance for physics, chemistry, and materials science. In this study, we perform a high-throughput screening of strong electron-phonon…

We calculated the superconductivity properties of alkali metals under high pressure using the results of band theory and the rigid-muffin-tin theory of Gaspari and Gyorffy. Our results suggest that at high pressures Lithium, Potassium,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Lei Shi , Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos

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

High-temperature high-pressure superconducting hydrides are typically characterized by cage-like hydrogenic lattices filled with electropositive metal atoms. Here, density functional theory based evolutionary crystal structure searches find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-18 Morgan Redington , Eva Zurek

Recent computational studies confirmed by experiment have established the occurrence of superconducting temperatures, $T_c$, near 200 K when the pressure is close to 200 GPa in the compound H$_3S$. Motivated by these findings we investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-10 D. A. Papaconstantopoulos

The fundamental mechanism that gives rise to high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity in the copper oxide materials has been debated since the discovery of the phenomenon. Recent work has focussed on a sharp 'kink' in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Hwang , T. Timusk , G. D. Gu

It has been now over 20 years since the discovery of the first high temperature superconductor by Georg Bednorz and Alex Mueller in 1986 and yet, despite intensive effort, no universally accepted theory exists about the origin of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 A. S. Alexandrov

We theoretically explore the superconducting critical temperature of hole doped blue phosphorene. Implementing the density functional theory calculations, we show that for the hole doped blue phosphorene, the isotropic superconducting state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-17 Davoud Nasr Esfahani , Reza Asgari

The superconducting state in vanadium characterizes with the critical temperature ($T_{c}$) equal to $5.3$~K. The Coulomb pseudopotential, calculated with the help of the Eliashberg equations, possesses anomalously high value…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-27 E. A. Drzazga , I. A. Domagalska , M. W. Jarosik , R. Szczȩśniak , J. K. Kalaga

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

We present measurements of the superconducting and charge density wave critical temperatures (Tc and TCDW) as a function of pressure in the transition metal dichalchogenides 2H-TaSe2 and 2H-TaS2. Resistance and susceptibility measurements…

We investigate the possibility of achieving high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides under pressure by inducing metallization of otherwise insulating phases through doping, a path previously used to render standard semiconductors…

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