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Here we report targeted high-pressure synthesis of two novel high-$T_C$ hydride superconductors, $P6_3/mmc$-$ThH_9$ and $Fm\bar{3}m$-$ThH_{10}$, with the experimental critical temperatures ($T_C$) of 146 K and 159-161 K and upper critical…

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…

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

In the last five years a large number of new high-temperature superconductors have been predicted and experimentally discovered among hydrogen-rich crystals, at pressures which are way too high to meet any practical application. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-04 Simone Di Cataldo , Christoph Heil , Wolfgang von der Linden , Lilia Boeri

Compressed hydrogen-rich compounds have received extensive attention as appealing contenders for superconductors, and further challenges are maintaining the stability and superconductivity of hydrides at lower pressures. In this work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Hao Song , Mingyang Du , Qiwen Jiang , Tiancheng Ma , Ming Xu , Tian Cui

Lanthanum-hydrogen system and its derivatives remain among the most promising for achieving room-temperature superconductivity. In this study, we examined the formation of ternary lanthanum-scandium superhydrides at pressures up to 220 GPa.…

The discovery of novel high-temperature superconductor materials holds transformative potential for a wide array of technological applications. However, the combinatorially vast chemical and configurational search space poses a significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiaoyang Wang , Chengqian Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Hanyu Liu , Jian Lv , Han Wang , Weinan E , Yanming Ma

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

Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high-T$_c$ superconductors, with experimentally observed critical temperatures near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Evgeny Plekhanov , Zelong Zhao , Francesco Macheda , Yao Wei , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

While hydrogen-rich materials have been demonstrated to exhibit high T$_c$ superconductivity at high pressures, there is an ongoing search for ternary and quaternary hydrides that achieve such high critical temperatures at much lower…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-25 Adam Denchfield , Hyowon Park , Russell J Hemley

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

The discoveries of high-temperature superconductivity in H3S and LaH10 have excited the search for superconductivity in compressed hydrides. In contrast to rapidly expanding theoretical studies, high-pressure experiments on hydride…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-15 Wuhao Chen , Dmitrii V. Semenok , Xiaoli Huang , Haiyun Shu , Xin Li , Defang Duan , Tian Cui , Artem R. Oganov

We predicted a new ternary hydride Li$_2$SiH$_6$ at high pressures. A systematic structure search in Li$_2$SiH$_6$ compound reveals novel stable phases with intriguing electronic and phonon properties. It is found that Li$_2$SiH$_6$ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sixuan Wu , Bin Li , Zhi Chen , Yu Hou , Yan Bai , Xiaofeng Hao , Yeqian Yang , Shengli Liu , Jie Cheng , Zhixiang Shi

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

With the motivation of discovering high-temperature superconductors, evolutionary algorithm is employed to search for all stable compounds in the Sn-H system. In addition to the traditional SnH$_4$, new hydrides SnH$_8$, SnH$_{12}$ and…

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

Recent progress on theoretical predictions of ternary superhydrides and their subsequent experimental confirmations have introduced us with a new generation of superconductors, having the potential to realize the synthesis of the most…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-06 Abdul Ghaffar , Peng Song , Kenta Hongo , Ryo Maezono

Clathrate hydride \emph{Fm}\={3}\emph{m}-LaH$_{10}$ has been proven as the most extraordinary superconductor with the critical temperature $T_c$ above 250 K upon compression of hundreds of GPa in recent years. A general hope is to reduce…

Exploring high-temperature superconducting (high-$T_c$) material at ambient pressure holds immense significance for physics, chemistry, and materials science. In this study, we perform a high-throughput screening of strong electron-phonon…

We investigate the superconducting ternary lithium borohydride phase diagram at pressures of 0 and 200$\,$GPa using methods for evolutionary crystal structure prediction and linear-response calculations for the electron-phonon coupling. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-20 Christian Kokail , Lilia Boeri , Wolfgang von der Linden