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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

Observation of high-temperature superconductivity in sulfur hydrides at megabar pressures has generated an irresistible wave on searching for new superconductors in other compressed hydrogen-rich compounds. An immediate effort is towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-10 Xin Zhong , Hui Wang , Jurong Zhang , Hanyu Liu , Shoutao Zhang , Hai-Feng Song , Guochun Yang , Lijun Zhang , Yanming Ma

Search for stable high-pressure compounds in the Ti--H system reveals the existence of titanium hydrides with new stoichiometries, including Ibam-Ti$_2$H$_5$, I4/m-Ti$_5$H$_{13}$, I$\bar{4}$-Ti$_5$H$_{14}$, Fddd-TiH$_4$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-20 Jin Zhang , Jeffrey M. McMahon , Artem R. Oganov , Xinfeng Li , Xiao Dong , Huafeng Dong , Shengnan Wang

In this study, we explore lithium-doped stable molecular hydrogen structures by performing first-principles crystal structure searches across varying compositions in the Li-H system under high pressure. Our search reveals a cubic phase of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-26 Ashok K. Verma , P. Modak

The discovery of nearly room-temperature superconductivity in superhydrides has motivated further materials research for conventional superconductors. To realize the moderately high critical temperature $(T_\mathrm{c})$ in materials…

The measurement of superconductivity at above 200K in compressed samples of hydrogen sulfide and lanthanum hydride at 250K is reinvigorating the search for conventional high temperature superconductors. At the same time it exposes a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Chris J. Pickard , Ion Errea , Mikhail I. Eremets

Hydrogen-rich materials are the most promising candidates for high-temperature conventional superconductors under ambient pressure. Multinary hydrides have abundant structural configurations and are more promising to find high-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-18 Bo-Wen Yao , Zhenfeng Ouyang , Xiao-Qi Han , Chang-Jiang Wu , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

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

High-temperature superconductivity has been observed in binary hydrides such as LaH10 at pressures above 150 GPa. Hydrogen cage structures have been identified as a common motif beneficial for high critical temperatures Tc. Efforts are now…

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…

Hydrogen-rich compounds hold promise as high-temperature superconductors under high pressures. Recent theoretical hydride structures on achieving high-pressure superconductivity are composed mainly of H2 fragments. Through a systematic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Hui Wang , John S. Tse , Kaori Tanaka , Toshiaki Iitaka , Yanming Ma

We identify a new family of boron-rich compounds consisting of interconnected B$_{12}$ icosahedra, and electropositive guest atoms ($X$) in interstitial sites. These structures were found through first-principles crystal structure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-15 Simone Di Cataldo , Antonio Sanna , Lilia Boeri

The uniquely characteristic macrostructures of binary hydrogen-clathrate compounds $M$H$_\textrm{n}$ formed at high pressure, a cage of hydrogens surrounding a central-atom host, is theoretically predicted in various studies to include…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-22 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

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

Research on high-temperature superconductors has primarily focused on hydrogen-rich compounds, however, the need for extreme pressures limits their practical applications. The X2MH6-type structure Mg2IrH6 stands out because it exhibits…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-01 Jing Luo , Qun Wei , Xiaofei Jia , Meiguang Zhang , Xuanmin Zhu

New stable thorium decahydride $Fm\bar{3}m$-$ThH_{10}$, a record high-temperature superconductor with $T_C$ up to 241 K ($-32^{\circ}C$), critical field $H_C$ up to 71T and superconducting gap ${\Delta_0}$ = 52 meV at 80-100 GPa was…

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

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 discovery of near-room-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides has sparked intensive research efforts to identify superconducting hydrides stable at low or even ambient pressures. Herein, we demonstrate a new mechanism for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Wendi Zhao , Shumin Guo , Tiancheng Ma , Zhengtao Liu , Chengda Li , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

A possibility of high, room-temperature superconductivity was predicted for metallic hydrogen in the 1960s. However, metallization and superconductivity of hydrogen are yet to be unambiguously demonstrated in the laboratory and may require…