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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…

The abundant chemical compositions in ternary hydrides bring much more possibility to explore high temperature superconductors under lower pressure. Here we constructed 115 ternary hydrides on the basis of the elements substitution using 16…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-19 Bangshuai Zhu , Dexi Shao , Cuiying Pei , Qi Wang , Juefei Wu , Yanpeng Qi

The primary challenge in the field of high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides is to achieve a superconducting state at ambient pressure rather than the extreme pressures that have been required in experiments so far. Here, we propose…

Recently superconductivity has been discovered at around 200~K in a hydrogen sulfide system and around 260~K in a lanthanum hydride system, both under pressures of about 200 GPa. These record-breaking transition temperatures bring within…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-15 Sabri Elatresh , T. Timusk , E. J. Nicol

Recent theoretical and experimental studies of hydrogen-rich materials at megabar pressures (i.e., >100 GPa) have led to the discovery of very high-temperature superconductivity in these materials. Lanthanum superhydride LaH$_{10}$ has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-05 Yanfeng Ge , Fan Zhang , Russell J. Hemley

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…

The recent report of near-ambient superconductivity in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydrides (Lu-N-H) has generated a great interest. However, conflicting results have raised doubts regarding superconductivity. Here, we combine high-throughput…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Yue-Wen Fang , Ðorđe Dangić , Ion Errea

Zhou et al., in their recent publication (Nat. Commun. 16, 1135, 2025), reported the synthesis of lanthanum superhydride, LaHx (x = 10.2-11.1), by laser heating LaH3 with NH3BH3 at a pressure of 170 GPa and investigated the temporal…

In 2023, superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ was discovered under high pressures above approximately 14 GPa. In addition to its high transition temperature ($T_{\mathrm{c}} \simeq 80$ K), the structural resemblance to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-19 Hiroya Sakurai , Yoshihiko Takano

The 2014-2015 prediction, discovery, and confirmation of record high temperature superconductivity above 200K in H$_3$S, followed by the 2018 extension to superconductivity in the 250-280K range in lanthanum hydride, marks a new era in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-13 Yundi Quan , Soham S. Ghosh , Warren E. Pickett

Discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds has fuelled the enthusiasm for finding materials with more promising superconducting properties among hydrides. However, the ultrahigh pressure needed to synthesize…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-22 Miao Gao , Xun-Wang Yan , Zhong-Yi Lu , Tao Xiang

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity above 240 K in binary La-H and Y-H systems inspired further predictions of even higher transition temperatures in compounds such as YH10 and MgH6, which are likely to be dynamically…

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

Based on evolutionary crystal structure searches in combination with ab initio calculations, we predict an unusual structural phase of the superconducting LaH$_{10}$ that is stable from about 250 GPa to 425 GPa pressure. This new phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-17 Ashok K. Verma , P. Modak , Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

It has been a hot issue to search for hydrides at high pressure with high superconducting transition temperature (Tc). In this work, ternary hydrogen-rich compounds KYHn (n = 1-16) were studied and calculated using the density function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-27 LingYan Chen

The thermodynamic parameters of the superconducting state in PtH at the pressure 76 GPa have been examined. The calculations have been carried out in the framework of the Eliashberg formalism. It has been found that the critical temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Szczȩśniak , D. Szczȩśniak , K. M. Huras

Superconducting memory is a promising technology for data storage because of its speed, high energy efficiency, non-volatility, and compatibility with quantum computing devices. However, the need for cryogenic temperatures makes…

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

The research on hydrogen-rich ternary compounds attract tremendous attention for it paves new route to room-temperature superconductivity at lower pressures. Here, we study the crystal structures, electronic structures, and superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-19 Juefei Wu , Bangshuai Zhu , Chi Ding , Cuiying Pei , Qi Wang , Jian Sun , Yanpeng Qi

Various clathrate superhydride superconductors have been found to possess hydrogen deficiency in experimental samples, while their impacts on superconductivity are often neglected. In this study, we investigate the superconductivity of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-17 Haoran Chen , Hui Wang , Junren Shi