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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

The present investigation into the superconducting properties of eutectic high-entropy alloy (HEA) Hf-Nb-Sc-Ti-Zr systems reveals an enhanced superconducting critical temperature ($T_\mathrm{c}$) in body-centered cubic (bcc) phases compared…

Motivated by advances in hydrogen-rich superconductors in the past decades, we conducted variable-composition structural searches in Mo-H binary system at high pressure. A new composition-pressure phase diagram of thermodynamically stable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-31 Aiqin Yang , Xiangru Tao , Yundi Quan , Peng Zhang

Seven distinct families of superconductors with critical temperatures at ambient pressure that equal or surpass the historic 23 K limit for Nb3Ge have been discovered in the last 25 years. Each family is reviewed briefly and their common…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-09 J. Paul Attfield

The mechanism of superconductivity caused by the electron-vibrational centres and their inherent oscillations in crystals and solid-state structures near room temperature and at higher temperatures - hyperconductivity is discussed and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Vdovenkov

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

Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) represent a class of crystalline materials for extreme environments. They can withstand extremely high temperatures but are mechanically difficult to work with due to their inherent brittleness.…

Barium hydrides are of interest for their potential in both ionic conductivity and superconductivity. Recently, a superconducting hydride BaH$_{12}$ containing H$_2$ and H${_3}^{-1}$ molecular units was experimentally reported with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-07 Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

Hydrogen-rich compounds have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally in the quest for novel high-temperature superconductors. Reports on sulfur-hydride attaining metallicity under pressure and exhibiting…

We report a significant enhancement of the upper critical field $H_{c2}$ of different $MgB_2$ samples alloyed with nonmagnetic impurities. By studying films and bulk polycrystals with different resistivities $\rho$, we show a clear trend of…

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a prototype molecular system and a sister molecule of water. The phase diagram of solid H2S at high pressures remains largely unexplored arising from the challenges in dealing with the looser S-H bond and larger…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-26 Yinwei Li , Jian Hao , Yanling Li , Yanming Ma

Elemental materials provide clean and fundamental platforms for studying superconductivity. However, the highest superconducting critical temperature (Tc) yet observed in elements has not exceeded 30 K. Discovering elemental superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-27 Jianjun Ying , Shiqiu Liu , Qing Lu , Xikai Wen , Zhigang Gui , Yuqing Zhang , Xiaomeng Wang , Jian Sun , Xianhui Chen

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

With centre-of-mass energies covering the Z pole, the WW threshold, the HZ production, and the top-pair threshold, the FCC-ee offers unprecedented possibilities to measure the properties of the four heaviest particles of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-02 Martin Aleksa , Franco Bedeschi , Roberto Ferrari , Felix Sefkow , Christopher G. Tully

Superconductivity is observed with critical temperatures near 9K in the tetragonal compound Mo5PB2. This material adopts the Cr5B3 structure type common to supercondcuting Nb5Si3-xBx, Mo5SiB2, and W5SiB2, which have critical temperatures of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-10 Michael A. McGuire , David S. Parker

We report appearance of superconductivity at 5K in NdO0.5F0.5BiS2 and supplement the discovery [1] of the same in layered sulfide based ZrCuSiAs type compounds. The bulk polycrystalline compound is synthesized by conventional solid state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Rajveer Jha , Anuj Kumar , Shiva Kumar Singh , V. P. S. Awana

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…

We present computer simulations of liquid and solid phases of condensed methane at pressures below 25 GPa, between 150 and 300 K, where no appreciable molecular dissociation occurs. We used molecular dynamics (MD) and metadynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Leonardo Spanu , Davide Donadio , Detlef Hohl , Giulia Galli

The pressure-induced transformation of diatomic nitrogen into non-molecular polymeric phases may produce potentially useful high-energy-density materials. We combine first-principles calculations with structure searching to predict a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Yinwei Li , Jian Hao , Hanyu Liu , Siyu Lu , John S. Tse

The discovery of high-temperature superconducting materials holds great significance for human industry and daily life. In recent years, research on predicting superconducting transition temperatures using artificial intelligence~(AI) has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Qi Han , Ze-Feng Gao , Xin-De Wang , Zhenfeng Ouyang , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu