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The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using \emph{ab initio} crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first-principles calculations has led to the \emph{in silico} discovery of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-25 Eva Zurek , Tiange Bi

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

A key challenge in materials discovery is to find high-temperature superconductors. Hydrogen and hydride materials have long been considered promising materials displaying conventional phonon-mediated superconductivity. However, the high…

Lanthanum, yttrium, and cerium hydrides are the three most well-known superconducting binary hydrides (La-H, Y-H, and Ce-H systems), which have gained great attention in both theoretical and experimental studies. Recent studies have shown…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-15 Peng Song , Zhufeng Hou , Kousuke Nakano , Kenta Hongo , Ryo Maezono

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

We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020-2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature ($\textit{T$_c$}$) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite…

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

The search for room temperature superconductivity has accelerated dramatically in the last few years driven largely by theoretical predictions that first indicated alloying dense hydrogen with other elements could produce conventional…

The use of high pressure to realize superconductivity in the vicinity of room temperature has a long history, much of it focused on achieving this in hydrogen rich materials. This paper provides a brief overview of the work presented at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-11 Russell J. Hemley , Muhtar Ahart , Hanyu Liu , Maddury Somayazulu

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…

Polyhydrides offer intriguing perspectives as high-temperature superconductors. Here we report the high-pressure synthesis of a series of lanthanum-yttrium ternary hydrides: cubic hexahydride $(La,Y)H_{6}$ with a critical temperature…

Hydrogen-rich superconductors are promising candidates to achieve room-temperature superconductivity. However, the extreme pressures needed to stabilize these structures significantly limit their practical applications. An effective…

Room temperature superconductivity is a dream that mankind has been chasing for a century. In recent years, the synthesis of H3S, LaH10 and C-S-H system has gradually made this dream a reality. But the extreme pressures required for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-26 Mingyang Du , Hao Song , Zihan Zhang , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-standing goal for scientific progress and human development. Thermodynamic stability is a prerequisite for material synthesis and application. Here, we perform a combination of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-03 Decheng An , Defang Duan , Zihan Zhang , Qiwen Jiang , Hao Song , Tian Cui

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…

Evolutionary structure searches revealed a plethora of stable and low-enthalpy metastable phases in the S-P-H ternary phase diagram under pressure. A wide variety of crystalline structure types were uncovered ranging from those possessing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-04 Nisha Geng , Tiange Bi , Eva Zurek

The flourishing rare earth superhydrides are a class of recently discovered materials that possess near-room-temperature superconductivity at high pressures, opening a new era of superconductivity research at high pressures. Among these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-12 Yingying Wang , Kui Wang , Yao Sun , Liang Ma , Yanchao Wang , Bo Zou , Guangtao Liu , Mi Zhou , Hongbo Wang

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

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