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A15 Nb$_3$Si is, until now, the only high temperature superconductor produced at high pressure (~110 GPa) that has been successfully brought back to room pressure conditions in a metastable condition. Based on the current great interest in…

Recent predictions of metastable high-temperature hydride superconductors give hope that superconductivity at ambient conditions is within reach. In this work, we predict RbPH$_3$ as a new compound with a superconducting critical…

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Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are promising high-Tc superconductors, with superconductivity experimentally observed near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high pressures, e.g. LaH10 at 170 GPa…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-14 Yao Wei , Francesco Macheda , Zelong Zhao , Terence Tse , Evgeny Plekhanov , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

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…

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The pursuit of room-temperature superconductors has recently advanced with the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides, although sustaining the superconductivity of hydrides at ambient pressure remains…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-28 Ying Sun , Li Zhu

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…

The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using \emph{ab initio} crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first-principles calculations has led to the \emph{in silico} discovery of…

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High-pressure structural searches of superhydrides CeBeH$_8$ and CeBH$_8$ were performed under ambient pressure up to 300 GPa. We identify $Fm\overline{3}m$-CeBeH$_8$ with a superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ of 56 K at 10 GPa.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-01 Yu Hou , Bin Li , Yan Bai , Xiaofeng Hao , Yeqian Yang , Fengfeng Chi , Shengli Liu , Jie Cheng , Zhixiang Shi

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

Inspired by the high critical temperature in yttrium superhydride and the low stabilized pressure in superconducting cerium superhydride, we carry out four independent runs to synthesize yttrium-cerium alloy hydrides. The phases examined by…

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…

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Applying pressure around megabar is indispensable in the synthesis of high-temperature superconducting hydrides, such as SH$_3$ and LaH$_{10}$. Stabilizing the high-pressure phase of hydride around ambient condition is a severe challenge.…

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High-temperature superconductivity has been observed in binary hydrides such as LaH10 at pressures above 150 GPa. Hydrogen cage structures have been identified as a common motif beneficial for high critical temperatures Tc. Efforts are now…

The high pressure phases of HBr are explored with an ab initio crystal structure search. By taking into account the contribution of zero-point energy (ZPE), we find that the P4/nmm phase of HBr is thermodynamically stable in the pressure…

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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

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

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…

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