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Superconductivity in Pb, H under extreme pressure and CaBeSi, in the framework of the density functional theory for superconductors, is discussed. A detailed analysis on how the electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions combine…

Hydrides are considered to be one of the most promising families of compounds for achieving high temperature superconductivity. However, there are very few experimental reports of ambient-pressure hydride superconductivity, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-18 Antonio Sanna , Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Ekin Dogus Cubuk , Ion Errea , Yue-Wen Fang

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…

Following the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the La-H system, where for the recently discovered fcc-LaH10 a record critical temperature Tc = 250 K was achieved [Drozdov et al., Nature, 569, 528 (2019) and Somayazulu et…

Hydrogen and hydrides materials have long been considered promising materials for high-temperature superconductivity. But the extreme pressures required for the metallization of hydrogen-based superconductors limit their applications. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-08 Mingyang Du , Hongyu Huang , Zihan Zhang , Min Wang , Hao Song , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

A maximum superconductive transition temperature $T_\textrm{C}$ = 203.5 K has recently been reported for a sample of the binary compound tri-hydrogen sulfide (H$_\textrm{3}$S) prepared at high pressure and with room temperature annealing.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-14 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

We report synthesis, structure/micro-structure, resistivity under magnetic field [R(T)H], Raman spectra, thermoelectric power S(T), thermal conductivity K(T), and magnetization of ambient pressure argon annealed polycrystalline bulk samples…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 V. P. S. Awana , Arpita Vajpaye , Monika Mudgel , H. Kishan , V. Ganesan , A. M. Awasthi , G. L. Bhalla

We report ab-initio calculations of the superconducting properties of two high-Tc sodalite-like clathrate yttrium hydrides, YH6 and YH10, within the fully anisotropic ME theory, including Coulomb corrections. For both compounds we find…

Metal superhydrides, known for their high hydrogen content and polyhedral hydrogen cages, are promising candidates for high-temperature superconductivity. Recent research has emphasized "chemical pre-compression," enabling hydrogen…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-06 Yuanhui Sun , Maosheng Miao

Superconductivity commonly appears under pressure in charge density wave (CDW)-bearing transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), but has emerged so far only via either intercalation with electron donors or electrostatic doping in CDW-free…

Since the discovery of superconductivity in mercury at 4 K in 1911, searching for materials with superconductivity at higher temperatures towards practical conditions has been a primary enduring goal. The recent report of room-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-10 Di Peng , Qiaoshi Zeng , Fujun Lan , Zhenfang Xing , Yang Ding , Ho-kwang Mao

The temperature dependence of the two superconducting gaps in pressurised H_3S at 155 GPa with a critical temperature of 203 K has been determined by data analysis of the experimental curve of the upper critical magnetic field as a function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-02 G. A. Ummarino , A. Bianconi

The search for new superconducting materials approaching room temperature benefits from having a variety of testing methodologies to confirm and characterize the presence of superconductivity. Often the first signatures of new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Charles L. Dean , Milind N. Kunchur

The recent surprising discovery of superconductivity with critical temperature $T_c$ = 32 K in MoB$_2$ above 70 GPa has led to the search for related materials that may superconduct at similarly high $T_c$ values and lower pressures. We…

The prediction of superconductivity above 200 K in CaH$_6$ revolutionized research on hydrogen-rich superconductors, and subsequent experiments have verified this prediction, while unidentified peaks in XRD and the decrease in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-10 Wenbo Zhao , Zefang Wang , Ying Sun , Hefei Li , Hanyu Liu , Yu Xie

The recent discovery of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds has garnered significant experimental and theoretical interest because of the record-setting critical temperatures. As the direct observation of the superconducting (SC)…

A new experimental study by Snider et al. [Nature 586, 373-377 (2020)] reported behavior in a high-pressure carbon-sulfur-hydrogen system that has been interpreted by the authors as superconductivity at room temperature. The sudden drop of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-16 Mehmet Dogan , Marvin L. Cohen

High-pressure electrical resistivity measurements reveal that the mechanical deformation of ultra-hard WB2 during compression induces superconductivity above 50 GPa with a maximum superconducting critical temperature, Tc of 17 K at 90 GPa.…

Superconductivity in highly-pressurized hydrides became primary direction for the exploration of fundamental upper limit for the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, after Drozdov et al (Nature 2015, 525, 73) discovered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-28 E. F. Talantsev

Motivated by the recent report of superconductivity above 200 K in ultra-dense hydrogen sulfide, we search for high-\tc\ conventional superconductivity in the phase diagram of the binary Li-S system, using {\em ab-initio} methods for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-10 Christian Kokail , Christoph Heil , Lilia Boeri