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A diamond anvil cell (DAC) which can generate extremely high pressure of multi-megabar is promising tool to develop a further physics such a high-transition temperature superconductivity. However, electrical transport measurements, which is…

Hydrogen-rich compounds are important for understanding the dissociation of dense molecular hydrogen, as well as searching for room temperature Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors. A recent high pressure experiment reported the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-12 Yangmei Chen , Hua Y. Geng , Xiaozhen Yan , Yi Sun , Qiang Wu , Xiangrong Chen

The discovery of high-temperature superconductors remains a central challenge in materials science. Hydrogen-rich compounds are among the most promising candidates, as they can exhibit phonon-mediated superconductivity at elevated critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Maélie Caussé , Kieran Bozier , Peter I. C. Cooke , Stefano Racioppi , Chris J. Pickard

Electron-phonon coupling is at the origin of conventional superconductivity, enabling the pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs. The electron-phonon matrix elements depend on the electronic eigenstates and, in the standard linear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-10 Trinidad Novoa , Raffaello Bianco , Julia Contreras-García , Ion Errea

Recently, Grockowiak $\textit{et al.}$ reported "hot superconductivity" in ternary or multinary compounds based on lanthanum hydride [A. D. Grockowiak $\textit{et al.}$, Front. Electron. Mater. $\textbf{2}$, 837651 (2022)]. In this paper,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-05 Takahiro Ishikawa , Yuta Tanaka , Shinji Tsuneyuki

We investigate the role of specific phonon mode symmetries for the room temperature superconductivity in atomic hydrogen under large pressure. Using anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory with ab initio input from density functional theory,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-11 Ashok K. Verma , P. Modak , Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

High-pressure superhydrides have attracted much attention due to their high superconducting critical temperatures ($T_\text{c}$s). Herein, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used to study the structures and properties,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Masashi W. Kimura , Seong Won Jang , Nisha Geng , Eva Zurek

We report a strategy to induce superconductivity in the BiS$_2$-based compound LaOBiS$_2$. Instead of substituting F for O, we increase the charge-carrier density (electron dope) via substitution of tetravalent Th$^{+4}$, Hf$^{+4}$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-22 D. Yazici , K. Huang , B. D. White , I. Jeon , V. W. Burnett , A. J. Friedman , I. K. Lum , M. Nallaiyan , S. Spagna , M. B. Maple

We investigate the magnetic and superconducting properties in electron-doped Li$_x$HfNCl. HfNCl is a band insulator that undergoes an insulator to superconductor transition upon doping at $x\approx0.13$. The persistence of the insulating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-02 Betül Pamuk , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra

Demonstrating superconductivity in purely repulsive Hubbard models is a compelling goal which underscores the counter-intuitive ability of Coulomb interactions to mediate superconductivity. Here, we present numerical evidence for robust…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-04 Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Stefan Divic , Michael P. Zaletel , Tomohiro Soejima , Ashvin Vishwanath

Behaviours of hydrogen, such as fluidity and metallicity, are crucial for our understanding of planetary interiors and the emerging field of high-temperature superconducting hydrides. These behaviours were discovered in complex phase…

Research on high-temperature superconductors has primarily focused on hydrogen-rich compounds, however, the need for extreme pressures limits their practical applications. The X2MH6-type structure Mg2IrH6 stands out because it exhibits…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-01 Jing Luo , Qun Wei , Xiaofei Jia , Meiguang Zhang , Xuanmin Zhu

Coupling between $\sigma$-bonding electrons and phonons is generally very strong. To metallize $\sigma$-electrons provides a promising route to hunt for new high-T$_c$ superconductors. Based on this picture and first-principles density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-03 Miao Gao , Xun-Wang Yan , Zhong-Yi Lu , Tao Xiang

Hydrogen compounds are peculiar as the quantum nature of the proton can crucially affect their structural and physical properties. A remarkable example are the high-pressure phases of H$_2$O, where quantum proton fluctuations favor the…

Recent experimental developments in hydrogen-rich materials in high pressures have put this class of materials above others in the race toward room temperature superconductivity. As it is the basis of all the materials in this class, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-03 Mehmet Dogan , Sehoon Oh , Marvin L. Cohen

Recently, the experimental discovery of high-$T_c$ superconductivity in compressed hydrides H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$ at megabar pressures has triggered searches for various superconducting superhydrides. It was experimentally observed that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-25 Shichang Yao , Chongze Wang , Shuyuan Liu , Hyunsoo Jeon , Jun-Hyung Cho

Hydrogen storage remains a key challenge for the development of a sustainable hydrogen energy system, where materials must satisfy requirements on storage capacity, thermodynamics, kinetics, and reversibility. Complex borohydrides are…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-13 Sikander Azam , Wilayat Khan

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…

To achieve room-temperature superconductivity, a mechanism is needed that provides heavy quasiparticles at room temperature. In heavy fermion systems such localization is prototypically present only at liquid helium temperatures. In these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-11 J. L. M. van Mechelen , M. J. van Setten

Study and comparison of over 30 examples of electron doped BaFe2As2 for transition metal (TM) = Co, Ni, Cu, and (Co/Cu mixtures) have lead to an understanding that the suppression of the structural/antiferromagnetic phase transition to low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-04 P. C. Canfield , S. L. Bud'ko , N. Ni , J. Q. Yan , A. Kracher