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With the motivation of discovering high-temperature superconductors, evolutionary algorithm is employed to search for all stable compounds in the Sn-H system. In addition to the traditional SnH$_4$, new hydrides SnH$_8$, SnH$_{12}$ and…

In recent years, metal hydride research has become one of the driving forces of the high-pressure community, as it is believed to hold the key to superconductivity close to ambient temperature. While numerous novel metal hydride compounds…

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 near-room temperature superconductivity in the lanthanum hydride LaH$_{10}$ has revolutionized this field of research. However, the need to use diamond anvils for the synthesis of such superconductors severely limits the…

We report the synthesis and characterization of (La0.9Y0.1)H10 superhydrides exhibiting coexisting cubic Fm-3m and hexagonal P63/mmc clathrate phases observed over the pressure range from 168 GPa down to 136 GPa. Using synchrotron-based…

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

A recent experiment has shown a macroscopic quantum coherent condensate at 203 K, about 19 degrees above the coldest temperature recorded on the Earth, 184 K, in pressurized sulfur hydride. This discovery is relevant not only in material…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-17 Antonio Bianconi , Thomas Jarlborg

The vision of ``room temperature superconductivity'' has appeared intermittently but prominently in the literature since 1964, when W. A. Little and V. L. Ginzburg began working on the `problem of high temperature superconductivity' around…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Warren E. Pickett

The recent discovery of a class of sodalite-like clathrate superhydrides (e.g., YH6, YH9, ThH9, ThH10, and LaH10) at extreme pressures, which exhibit commonly a high-temperature superconductivity with the highest Tc approaching 260 K for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Liang Ma , Guangtao Liu , Yingying Wang , Mi Zhou , Hanyu Liu , Feng Peng , Hongbo Wang , Yanming Ma

In the search for high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides, a plethora of multi-hydrogen superconductors have been theoretically predicted, and some have been synthesized experimentally under ultrahigh pressures of several hundred…

The discovery of high temperature superconductivity in cuprates was possible only through an intimate knowledge of perovskite oxides which have been synthesized and characterized for decades at the IBM in the Z\"urich laboratoty. Especially…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-08 Annette Bussmann-Holder , K. Alex Müller

We used our developed AI search engine~(InvDesFlow) to perform extensive investigations regarding ambient stable superconducting hydrides. A cubic structure Li$_2$AuH$_6$ with Au-H octahedral motifs is identified to be a candidate. After…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Zhenfeng Ouyang , Bo-Wen Yao , Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

High-temperature conventional superconductivity in hydrogen-rich materials under high pressure has been reportedly found in twelve different compounds in recent years. However, the experimental evidence on which these claims are based has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-14 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio

Organic superconductors are unique materials with a crystal structure made primarily of a complex carbon based network, an element associated directly with life, which were postulated to have a high critical temperature, $T_{C}$, even above…

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

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

The compressed hydrogen-rich compounds have received extensive attention as promising candidates for room temperature superconductivity, however, the high pressure required to stabilize such materials hinders their wide practical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Decheng An , Qiwen Jiang , Zhengtao Liu , Tiancheng Ma , Zihao Huo , Jianhui Du , Tian Cui

We study superconductivity in the superionic phase of the clathrate hydride Li$_2$MgH$_{16}$, where hydrogen ions diffuse among the lattice formed by lithium and magnesium ions. By employing the stochastic path-integral approach, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-13 Haoran Chen , Junren Shi

While hydrogen-rich materials have been demonstrated to exhibit high T$_c$ superconductivity at high pressures, there is an ongoing search for ternary and quaternary hydrides that achieve such high critical temperatures at much lower…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-25 Adam Denchfield , Hyowon Park , Russell J Hemley

Over the past six years, superconductivity at high temperatures has been reported in a variety of hydrogen-rich compounds under high pressure. That high-temperature superconductivity should exist in these materials is expected according to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-14 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio