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The discovery of high critical temperature T_{c} superconductivity in highly compressed H_{3}S has opened up the question of searching for strong electron-phonon coupling in the hydrides outside the transition metal series. The specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-08 P. -H. Chang , S. Silayi , D. A. Papaconstantopoulos , M. J. Mehl

The recent report of superconductivity under high pressure at the record transition temperature of Tc=203K in sulfur hydride has been identified as conventional in view of the observation of an isotope effect upon deuteration. Here it is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-24 Annette Bussmann-Holder , Jurgen Kohler , M. -H. Whangbo , Antonio Bianconi , Arndt Simon

The discovery of a record high superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 288 K in a pressurized hydride inspires new hope to realize ambient condition superconductivity. Here, we give a perspective on the theoretical and experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-21 Dong Wang , Yang Ding , Ho-Kwang Mao

Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high-T$_c$ superconductors, with experimentally observed critical temperatures near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Evgeny Plekhanov , Zelong Zhao , Francesco Macheda , Yao Wei , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

A superconductor is a material that can conduct electricity with no resistance below its critical temperature (Tc). The highest Tc that has been achieved in cuprates1 is 133 K at ambient pressure2 and 164 K at high pressures3. As the nature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-31 A. P. Drozdov , M. I. Eremets , I. A. Troyan , V. Ksenofontov , S. I. Shylin

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

Superconductivity is one of the most amazing properties that metallic conductors exhibit. Electrical resistance is completely eliminated below the critical temperature (Tc), which is the most important parameter in superconductivity. Since…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-27 Zenji Hiroi

Recent studies of hydrogen-dominant (superhydride) materials, such as LaH10 have led to putative discoveries of near-room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 250 K observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-26 Xuejie Li , Wenbo zhao , Yuzhou Hao , Xiaoying Wang , Zhibin Gao , Xiangdong Ding

Room-temperature superconductor has been a century-long dream of humankind. Recent research on hydrogen-based superconductors (e.g., CaH6, LaH10, etc.) at high-pressure conditions lifts the record of superconducting critical temperature…

In recent years, the resistance signature of the high temperature superconductivity above 250 K in highly compressed hydrides (more than 100 GPa) has garnered significant attention within the condensed matter physics community. This has…

Studies on polyhydrides are attracting growing attentions recently due to their potential high temperature superconductivity (SC). We here report the discovery of SC in hafnium polyhydrides at high pressures. The hafnium superhydrides are…

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

The study of superconductivity in compressed hydrides is of great interest due to measurements of high critical temperatures (Tc) in the vicinity of room temperature, beginning with the observations of LaH10 at 170-190 GPa. However, the…

Recent discoveries of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds stabilized by high pressures have shown that a critical temperature of superconductivity Tc can reach near room temperature values. The current studies focus on the search…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-27 V. S. Minkov , V. Ksenofontov , S. L. Budko , E. F. Talantsev , M. I. Eremets

High-pressure polyhydrides are leading contenders for room temperature superconductivity. The next frontier lies in stabilizing them at ambient pressure, which would allow their practical applications. In this first-principles computational…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-18 Đorđe Dangić , Manex Alkorta , Yuewen Fang , Ion Errea

The discovery of high-temperature conventional superconductivity in H3S with a critical temperature of Tc=203 K was followed by the recent record of Tc ~250 K in the face-centered cubic (fcc) lanthanum hydride LaH10 compound. It was…

Satterthwaite and Toepke (1970 Phys. Rev. Lett. 25 741) predicted high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich metallic alloys, based on an idea that these compounds should exhibit high Debye frequency of the proton lattice, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-21 E. F. Talantsev

Motivated by the recent discovery of near-room temperature superconductivity in high-pressure superhydrides, we investigate from first-principles the high-pressure superconducting phase diagram of the ternary Ca-B-H system, using ab-initio…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-26 Simone Di Cataldo , Wolfgang von der Linden , Lilia Boeri

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

Following the recent discovery of very high temperature conventional superconductivity in sulfur hydride (critical temperature Tc of 203 K, Ref1) we searched for superconductivity in other hydrides and found that a covalent hydride…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-26 A. P. Drozdov , M. I. Eremets , I. A. Troyan