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High-pressure hydrogen-rich compounds have long been regarded as promising room-temperature superconductor candidates; however, their practical applications are limited by their reliance on extreme compression. This study explores…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-04 Qun Wei , Xinyu Wang , Jing Luo , Meiguang Zhang , Bing Wei

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

Intuitively, doping represents one of the most promising avenues for optimization of best prospect superconductors (SC) such as conventional high-pressure SCs with record critical temperatures. However, doping at high pressure (HP) is very…

Compressed hydrides are promising candidates for high-temperature superconductivity, yet achieving simultaneous structural stability and high-Tc at low pressures remains challenging. Here, we introduce a new mechanism for accomplishing this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-17 Wendi Zhao , Shumin Guo , Chengda Li , Abhiyan Pandit , Tian Cui , Defang Duan , Maosheng Miao

The discovery of ambient superconductivity would mark an epochal breakthrough long-awaited for over a century, potentially ushering in unprecedented scientific and technological advancements. The recent findings on high-temperature…

The discovery of near-room-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides has sparked intensive research efforts to identify superconducting hydrides stable at low or even ambient pressures. Herein, we demonstrate a new mechanism for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Wendi Zhao , Shumin Guo , Tiancheng Ma , Zhengtao Liu , Chengda Li , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

A lithium-doped magnesium hydride Li$_2$MgH$_{16}$ was recently reported [Y. Sun $et$ $al$., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 123}, 097001 (2019)] to exhibit the highest ever predicted superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ under high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Chongze Wang , Seho Yi , Jun-Hyung Cho

Search for stable high-pressure compounds in the Ti--H system reveals the existence of titanium hydrides with new stoichiometries, including Ibam-Ti$_2$H$_5$, I4/m-Ti$_5$H$_{13}$, I$\bar{4}$-Ti$_5$H$_{14}$, Fddd-TiH$_4$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-20 Jin Zhang , Jeffrey M. McMahon , Artem R. Oganov , Xinfeng Li , Xiao Dong , Huafeng Dong , Shengnan Wang

The extreme pressures required to stabilize the recently discovered superhydrides represent a major obstacle to their practical application. In this paper, we propose a novel route to attain high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-15 Simone Di Cataldo , Lilia Boeri

Motivated by advances in hydrogen-rich superconductors in the past decades, we conducted variable-composition structural searches in Mo-H binary system at high pressure. A new composition-pressure phase diagram of thermodynamically stable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-31 Aiqin Yang , Xiangru Tao , Yundi Quan , Peng Zhang

Hydrogen in metals is a significant research area with far-reaching implications, encompassing diverse fields such as hydrogen storage, metal-insulator transitions, and the recently emerging phenomenon of room-temperature ($\textit{$T_C$}$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-30 Heejung Kim , Ina Park , J. H. Shim , D. Y. Kim

In the last decade, there has been great progress in predicting and synthesizing polyhydrides that exhibit superconductivity when squeezed. Dopants allow these compounds to become metals at pressures lower than those required to metallize…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Xiaoyu Wang , Nisha Geng , Kyla de Villa , Burkard Militzer , Eva Zurek

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

Pressurized hydrogen-rich compounds, which could be viewed as precompressed metallic hydrogen, exhibit high superconductivity, thereby providing a viable route toward the discovery of high-temperature superconductors. Of particular interest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-12 Hongyi Guan , Ying Sun , Hanyu Liu

First-principles calculations were carried out to provide a chemical basis for proposed structures associated with the recently reported room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride material under pressure.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-28 Xiaoyu Wang , Tiange Bi , Katerina P. Hilleke , Anmol Lamichhane , Russell J. Hemley , Eva Zurek

This study presents a computational investigation of X4H15 compounds (where X represents a metal) as potential superconductors at ambient conditions or under pressure. Through systematic density functional theory calculations and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-01 Kun Gao , Wenwen Cui , Tiago F. T. Cerqueira , Hai-ChenWang , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marque

High-temperature high-pressure superconducting hydrides are typically characterized by cage-like hydrogenic lattices filled with electropositive metal atoms. Here, density functional theory based evolutionary crystal structure searches find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-18 Morgan Redington , Eva Zurek

By means of the first-principles density-functional theory calculation and Wannier interpolation, electron-phonon coupling and superconductivity are systematically explored for boron-doped LiBC (i.e. LiB$_{1+x}$C$_{1-x}$), with $x$ between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-29 Qi-Zhi Li , Xun-Wang Yan , Miao Gao , Jun Wang

The structural, electronic, lattice dynamics, electron-phonon coupling, and superconducting properties of the alkali-metal hydride RbH, metalized through electron-doping by the construction of the solid-solution Rb$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$H, are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-19 S. Villa-Cortés , M. A. Olea-Amezcua , O. De la Peña-Seaman

Hydrogen (H) plays a key role in the near-to-room temperature superconductivity of hydrides at megabar pressures. This suggests that H doping could have similar effects on the electronic and phononic spectra of materials at ambient pressure…

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