Clathrate metal superhydrides under high-pressure conditions: enroute to room-temperature superconductivity

Y Sun, X Zhong, H Liu, Y Ma - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-held dream of mankind and a focus of
considerable interest in the research field of superconductivity. Significant progress has …

Hydrogen clathrate structures in rare earth hydrides at high pressures: possible route to room-temperature superconductivity

F Peng, Y Sun, CJ Pickard, RJ Needs, Q Wu, Y Ma - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-held dream and an area of intensive
research. Recent experimental findings of superconductivity at 200 K in highly compressed …

Ab initio Eliashberg theory: making genuine predictions of superconducting features

A Sanna, JA Flores-Livas, A Davydov… - Journal of the Physical …, 2018 - journals.jps.jp
We present an application of Eliashberg theory of superconductivity to study a set of novel
superconducting systems with a wide range of structural and chemical properties. The set …

Prediction of above-room-temperature superconductivity in lanthanide/actinide extreme superhydrides

X Zhong, Y Sun, T Iitaka, M Xu, H Liu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Achieving room-temperature superconductivity has been an enduring scientific pursuit
driven by broad fundamental interest and enticing potential applications. The recent …

High-pressure hydrogen sulfide from first principles: a strongly anharmonic phonon-mediated superconductor

I Errea, M Calandra, CJ Pickard, J Nelson, RJ Needs… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We use first-principles calculations to study structural, vibrational, and superconducting
properties of H 2 S at pressures P≥ 200 GPa. The inclusion of zero-point energy leads to …

Potential high- superconductivity in under pressure

X Liang, A Bergara, L Wang, B Wen, Z Zhao, XF Zhou… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The high-pressure phases and superconductivity of CaYH 12 have been explored by using
a particle swarm optimization structure prediction methodology in combination with first …

High-temperature superconductivity in alkaline and rare earth polyhydrides at high pressure: A theoretical perspective

E Zurek, T Bi - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using
ab initio crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first principles calculations has …

Computational discovery of a dynamically stable cubic -like high-temperature superconductor at 100 GPa via intercalation

Y Sun, Y Tian, B Jiang, X Li, H Li, T Iitaka, X Zhong… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The 203 K superconductivity of SH 3 stimulates enormous interest in searching for high-
temperature superconductors in compressed hydrides. While several hydrides show high …

High temperature superconductivity in sulfur and selenium hydrides at high pressure

JA Flores-Livas, A Sanna, EKU Gross - The European Physical Journal B, 2016 - Springer
Due to its low atomic mass, hydrogen is the most promising element to search for high-
temperature phononic superconductors. However, metallic phases of hydrogen are only …

Superconducting high pressure phase of germane

G Gao, AR Oganov, A Bergara, M Martinez-Canales… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
High-pressure structures of germane (GeH 4) are explored through ab initio evolutionary
methodology to reveal a metallic monoclinic structure of C 2/c (4 molecules/cell). The C 2/c …