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Superconductor research has traditionally depended on experiments and theoretical approaches. However, the rapid advancement of data-driven methods and machine learning (ML) has opened avenues for accelerating superconductor discovery.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Xiaoying Li , Wenqian Tu , Run Lv , Li'e Liu , Dingfu Shao , Yuping Sun , Wenjian Lu

Though commonly unrecognized, a superconducting BCS condensate consists of equal numbers of two-electron (2e) and two-hole (2h) Cooper pairs (CPs). A complete (in the sense that 2h-CPs are not ignored) boson-fermion statistical model,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. de Llano

Recent research on compressed binary hydrides have unveiled the potential for achieving superconductivity at near-room-temperature. Nevertheless, the available decision-making procedures standing behind the selection of constituent elements…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-25 Izabela A. Wrona , Pawel Niegodajew , Artur P. Durajski

Through the solid state reaction method, we synthesized a new BiSe2-based superconductor Sr0:5La0:5FBiSe2 with superconducting transition temperature Tc?3.8 K. A strong diamagnetic signal below Tc in susceptibility ?(T) is observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-02 Lin Li , Yongliang Xiang , Yihong Chen , Wenhe Jiao , Chuhang Zhang , Li Zhang , Jianhui Dai , Yuke Li

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

The recent discovery of superconductivity at 190~K in highly compressed H$_{2}$S is spectacular not only because it sets a record high critical temperature, but because it does so in a material that appears to be, and we argue here that it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-05 N. Bernstein , C. S. Hellberg , M. D. Johannes , I. I. Mazin , M. J. Mehl

We present new measurements about the tunneling conductance in the borocarbide superconductor TmNi$_2$B$_2$C. The results show a very good agreement with weak coupling BCS theory, without any lifetime broadening parameter, over the whole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Suderow , P. Martinez-Samper , S. Vieira , N. Luchier , J. P. Brison , P. Canfield

This review discusses the heavy-fermion superconductivity in Ce- and U-based compounds crystallizing in the body-centered tetragonal ThCr2Si2 structure. Special attention will be paid to the theoretical background of these systems which are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-23 Oliver Stockert , Stefan Kirchner , Frank Steglich , Qimiao Si

The search for MgB2-like superconductivity has before now been limited to binary and ternary systems. However systems with more-than-three-elements that meet the MgB2 model have yet to be investigated either computationally or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-03 O. P. Isikaku-Ironkwe

The discovery of nearly room-temperature superconductivity in superhydrides has motivated further materials research for conventional superconductors. To realize the moderately high critical temperature $(T_\mathrm{c})$ in materials…

We perform a high-throughput computational search for novel phonon-mediated superconductors, starting from the Materials Cloud 3-dimensional structure database of experimentally known inorganic stoichiometric compounds. We first compute the…

Superconducting topological metals (SCTMs) have recently emerged as a promising platform of topological superconductivity (TSC) and Majorana zero modes(MZMs) for quantum computation. Despite their importance in both fundamental research and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-18 Aiyun Luo , Ying Li , Yi Qin , Jingnan Hu , Biao Lian , Gang Xu

Two single crystalline samples with the same nominal composition of Rb0.8Fe2Se2 prepared via slightly different precursor routes under the same thermal processing conditions were investigated at ambient and high pressures. One sample was…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-18 M. Gooch , B. Lv , L. Z. Deng , T. Muramatsu , J. Meen , Y. Y. Xue , B. Lorenz , C. W. Chu

We give a brief review of superconductivity at ambient pressure in elements, alloys, and simple three-dimensional compounds. Historically these were the first superconducting materials studied, and based on the experimental knowledge gained…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-25 G. W. Webb , F. Marsiglio , J. E. Hirsch

Pursuing higher-temperature superconductors under ambient pressure continues to be a prominent topic in materials discovery. Isomorphic structures like MgB2 exhibit potential for conventional BCS-type superconductivity, but their transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-23 Hao-Dong Liu , Xin-Peng Fu , Zhen-Guo Fu , Hong-Yan Lu , Ping Zhang

Cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy and magnetization measurements were used to study the superconducting properties of MgB_2. The magnetization measurements show a sharp superconductor transition onset at T_c = 38.5 K, in agreement…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Amos Sharoni , Israel Felner , Oded Millo

Inspired by recent predictions of superconductivity in B-C framework clathrates, we employ density functional theory to explore potential superconductors among hexagonal hydride-substituted compounds with compositions XB$_8$C, XB$_7$C$_2$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-11 Bin Li , Yuxiang Fan , Chuanhui Yin , Junjie Zhai , Cong Zhu , Zhisi Cao , Jie Cheng , Shengli Liu

Conventional superconductivity, as used in this review, refers to electron-phonon coupled superconducting electron-pairs described by BCS theory. Unconventional superconductivity refers to superconductors where the Cooper pairs are not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-07 G. R. Stewart

The discovery of high-$T_c$ conventional superconductivity in high-pressure hydrides has helped establish computational methods as a formidable tool to guide material discoveries in a field traditionally dominated by serendipitous…

Boron carbon compounds have been shown to have feasible superconductivity. In our earlier paper [Zheng et al., Phys. Rev. B 107, 014508 (2023)], we identified a new conventional superconductor of LiB3C at 100 GPa. Here, we aim to extend the…