The 2021 room-temperature superconductivity roadmap

B Lilia, R Hennig, P Hirschfeld, G Profeta… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Designing materials with advanced functionalities is the main focus of contemporary solid-
state physics and chemistry. Research efforts worldwide are funneled into a few high-end …

Electron–phonon physics from first principles using the EPW code

H Lee, S Poncé, K Bushick, S Ha**azar… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
EPW is an open-source software for ab initio calculations of electron–phonon interactions
and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory …

Multiscale space-time ansatz for correlation functions of quantum systems based on quantics tensor trains

H Shinaoka, M Wallerberger, Y Murakami, K Nogaki… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The correlation functions of quantum systems—central objects in quantum field theories—
are defined in high-dimensional space-time domains. Their numerical treatment thus suffers …

Designing multicomponent hydrides with potential high Tc superconductivity

A Denchfield, H Park, RJ Hemley - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
While hydrogen-rich materials have been demonstrated to exhibit high T c superconductivity
at high pressures, there is an ongoing search for ternary, quaternary, and more chemically …

Colloquium: Room temperature superconductivity: The roles of theory and materials design

WE Pickett - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
For half a century after the discovery of superconductivity, materials exploration for better
superconductors proceeded without knowledge of the underlying mechanism. The 1957 …

Relative importance of nonlinear electron-phonon coupling and vertex corrections in the Holstein model

PM Dee, J Coulter, KG Kleiner, S Johnston - Communications Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Determining the range of validity of Migdal's approximation for electron-phonon (e-ph)
coupled systems is a long-standing problem. Many attempts to answer this question employ …

Quantum stabilization and flat hydrogen-based bands of nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride

A Denchfield, F Belli, E Zurek, H Park, RJ Hemley - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We explore the electronic and structural properties of F m 3¯ m Lu-HN structures with
specific N, H ordering due to their remarkably narrow hydrogen-based bands at the Fermi …

Unconventional superconductivity mediated solely by isotropic electron-phonon interaction

F Schrodi, PM Oppeneer, A Aperis - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Unconventional superconductivity is commonly linked to electronic pairing mechanisms,
since it is believed that the conventional electron-phonon interaction (EPI) cannot cause …

Eliashberg study of superconductivity induced by interfacial coupling to antiferromagnets

E Thingstad, E Erlandsen, A Sudbø - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We perform Eliashberg calculations for magnon-mediated superconductivity in a normal
metal, where the electron-magnon interaction arises from interfacial coupling to …

Quantum geometric effect on Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov superconductivity

T Kitamura, A Daido, Y Yanase - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Quantum geometry characterizes the geometric properties of Bloch electrons in the wave
space, represented by the quantum metric and the Berry curvature. Recent studies have …